"My readers would certainly vote me rewards for them..."

You're right about that, as I've stated.

I can appreciate your frustration, while I can't approximate it because I don't have the mental acuity to realize your insights. I am confident you do, since you have them.

"That >10 people would think they know enough to centrally plan an economy for the rest of the entire planet seems a bit presumptuous, to me."

I don't think they do. They tend to their wallets. They practice to keep Hive small enough to remain unattractive to bigger fish, which would eat them all up. During the bot wars they gained a few new members they couldn't overwhelm, and shed a few that couldn't maintain. I kinda miss Fyrstikken's rants.

I let folks hungry for money worry about it. I'm just here to speak freely and support those that do. The goodwill of good people is a far more valuable reward, particularly if they are smarter than I and can usefully criticize me, which I reckon you can should you take interest enough to.

You may understand the No Hiding theorem that avers the universe cannot lose information it has gained. While this was devised to reckon with black holes, I note that if it's relevant to them, it's relevant to us, too. Our consciousnesses aren't terminable. We have almost no understanding of consciousness at all, other than that ours are information, which is why they're permanent. The goodwill we have we will take with us after the expiration of our meatbags, and this is the only wealth I have interest in, because it's the only wealth I can keep.

Tokens can only be exchanged over the network we use, and we don't own the network, so we use it at the leave of them that do. I have recently come to understand that any programmable control that can be applied to CBDCs can also be applied to every crypto, by programming the network we must transact with them on. Hive and BTC are just as much CBDCs as Putin's new digital Ruble.

Speak freely as you have information of value to share with good people, and let scumbags lament their malice at their leisure in the hereafter. It is your goodwill that rewards you, and will continue to, not your tokens, coins, or promises to pay printed on paper. What is merely cast in stone will rub off and crumble away. It is your good nature that will exist in perpetuity.

Thanks!