Sorry for pushing you to reply to my comment ;)

Yes I am depending on a third party and I would like not to, but unfortunately my internet connection is not all that good. If is failing regularly with complete outages of a few minutes.

To make HIVE more decentralized and for more witnesses to join, I guess a larger portion of the rewards would have to be payed out to the >20 witnesses. For me the decision to become a witness was not because of the rewards, but because I wanted to support the ecosystem (I will most probably never reach top 20 - I am happy if I am break-even at some point). However I guess that a lot of people think the opposite or don't have the opportunity to do so. Maybe an increasing value of HIVE would facilitate that.