I've gone out of hive quite a lot lately and I have to say that what makes Hive stand apart from most other projects is exactly the blogging aspect of it. It's in my opinion what allows a community to evolve and to strive. If this was not rewarded anymore, then hive would be just one of many other defi projects out there. Hive is one of the only places where you can actually earn money not for holding coins but for the content that you create. Hive needs the blogging aspect in my opinion otherwise it wouldn't be hive anymore :-)

If we lament that people sell the tokens that they earned on hive for creating content, I think it wouldn't be different that when stake holders sell theirs for the interests that they get. Both come out of the same reward pot...

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