Totally agree that something needs to happen to the overwhelming power of the whales. While I do agree that your influence should vary according to your HP (seen as investment in the chain, or maybe even better, the KE index!), as you correctly mention, these few whales have the power to simply control everything on the Hive blockchain.
I really like your proposals as well, been thinking about loopholes in it, but don't really see one at the moment, so that's good as well ;-)
Is there a way to propose this as a possible change?
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