Cat
In the United States right now is the season of Presidential Politics. The general election is less three weeks away, and country is tense. In the era of the Orange Man, the politics in the United States, just like many other countries of the world have turned right wing and ugly. Gone are the days when we used to have intelligent and educated discussion about politics from either parties. Now we mostly watch and counter conspiracy theories and cat memes!
Such is life! But thank god for The Kiffness!
For those who do not know who "The Kiffness" is, he is around for a long time. A solid YouTuber with 2.9M subscriber, the kiffness made our life just a little bit happer over the years.
David Scott (born 11 February 1988), also known by his stage name the Kiffness,[2] is a South African musician, producer, and parody artist who is the founder and lead singer of the band the Kiffness. Despite the band's name, Scott is referred to as the Kiffness alone
His work on the Orange Man will go down in history books. If you need YouTube influencers, this is the kind you want.
Dog
This next part may seem like a rant, but it is what it is, you just deal with it, because I do the same.
Bulldog's post on X (twitter) | Our messages on DAO discussion channel |
There is a lot of unpack here:
An SPS treasurer and influential SPS whale
Huh! Passive-Aggressive much Bulldog? You know who you are talking about, mention me by my fucking name!
Ok, that out of the way, let us see what the dog actually barking about:
He wants to start taking 25% of the DAO earning and buying SPS
He says it woud be about 500K SPS/month at current prices
He suggests this because this will potentially replenish SPS reward pool
As such there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the suggestion. Anyone can suggest anything, and say anything to anyone, here or on fucking X. However, you have to be ready for the consequences, because
The other side can do magic too!
If you feel strongly about the suggestion, cough up the 100K DEC and run a proposal, eh?
Why we wouldn't buy SPS
Well because that is stupid! We are talking about a DEC flywheel for a while. When SPS is cheap, like it is now, we like for the DEC to get to peg and sliightly higher, so that there is incentive to burn SPS for DEC, which reduces the SPS inflation and increases the price of SPS. Plus:
- DAO owns a lot of SPS
- DAO swaped a lot of stables, which we need to replenish
- DAO now pays a lot of salaries, we can't pay most of them in SPS
- Hive/HBD is earing dividend for us, we should compound it, and when the time is right (meaning when hive is higher than 50 cents) we can consider taking some of our earnings into stables
I hated to elaborate there on discord so I said:
Hive value > SPS value
Apparently a lot of people including the dog didn't like that. I don't know why. Because I was stating a fact. As of this writing:
Hive Price = $0.198
SPS Price = $0.0084
Clearly as of now price of Hive is about 23X higher than SPS. This is a fact. That is all that I was pointing to. Also hive's current marketcap is much higher than that of SPS. In future what will happen I have no idea, neither does anyone else. That is speculation. I have significant amount of hive assets and also significant amount of Splinterlands assets, so I am well diversified to take advantage of whatever happens to the price.
Here is the final word. If you do slander against me on the internet, please don't expect that I will be quiet all the time. This is my blog and I will respond my way, and when I do, you will NOT like it.
The recording that Kiffness did was hilarious and brilliant. It really captured the state of political world in many ways and more importantly, how many react to it - with humor.
In regards to Bulldog's suggestion, I was of a similar mindset and want to better understand your perspective. The DAO has a lot of current expenses and maybe more in the future, so I can understand wanting to stack HBD for a rainy day. That said, we do need to find a sustainable way for the DAO to continue funding rewards through SPS and using some earnings to buy when cheap makes sense to me too.
How would you allocate capital?
Appreciate that we see eye-to-eye on Kiffness. World need humor and not the dystopia that some of our leaders (?) paint about the United States.
Regarding your question on DAO capital I like us to be a holding company like we have been. Managing a decentralized portfolio for investment gain based on community opinion bound to fail.
Since you did ask for my opinion: I like to hold the hive that we earn for now. Here are my reasons:
Regarding SPS rewards: I like the game to come up with an organic way to reward, not by stretching the SPS.
Remember the best way to increase wealth is by earning more, not by saving. Elon Musk and Bill Gates are not where they are bying being great savers. They are there my doing innovation and running a good business. Saving only gives you mediocrity and that is the best case scenario :) In worst case, saving will progressively make you more negative regarding the surrounding world. Just notice how average Americans are struggling to keep their head above the water. Do you think saving will increase their quality of life or a better job, higher education, better earning?
I can agree with the approach of creating value rather than preserving it. Right now we are too dependent on the team to create that value though. I hope the DAO can become a more active participant in doing so as the ecosystem grows.
and DAO will, but not by savings, but by innovation
By bringing new investment.
I never would have guessed there would be so much drama surrounding splinterlands when I first invested in it all those years ago!
The same case here. I had so much hope on them in the past. But now...
Well...we can only wait and see.
There is always drama with anything in hive blockchain. We are dramatically enhanced! :)
Haha, yeah I guess it comes with the territory when there is money involved.
Hey bro, do still have the code stuff to write red headlines, titles or words? And can you use any color that way? I was searching but wasn't able to place at hive the way I found, looks nice.
<div class=phishy> Red Font </div>
Surprise surprise, here I agree with you
Heard donald trumpis coming back for precident well if he did a great job last time then he is fit to be in the sit
I am not so sure. I will cross the bridge when we get to it
Lolzz ok if you say so