Pretty solid platform, and the only substantial disagreement I have with it is you are not actually proposing to destroy the ninjamine. I don't even see a practical plan to destroy the founder's stake (although such practical plan could be as simple as simply sending it to @null, so that's not much of a criticism), which is what you are proposing to destroy. All Steem, and thus Hive, was mined into existence by ninjaminers, amongst whom were @ned and @dan. Not sure about the details of their stakes, but apparently @ned and Stinc had mined up ~70M Steem, which on Hive has been stuffed into the HPS system, and that is what you propose destroying rather than paying @justineh for getting listings on exchanges with it.

Not taking a position on your proposal at all here, just pointing out that destroying the ninjamine would actually eradicate the vast majority of Hive in existence, leaving only that which was not mined into existence but created via inflation and paid out as rewards. Since a lot of folks have purchased that mined stake with fiat, I reckon that would be pretty despicable to do, maybe even criminal.

The only mined stake you express a desire to eradicate is that formerly held by @ned and Stinc, now stuffed into the HPS system. @berniesanders stake is actually not the target of your destructive yen, even though they ninjamined with the best of them.

I could not more strongly support your recommendation regarding 1:1 witness voting. It would be quite simple to implement, with a mechanism that has been tested for ~four years already. All that would be necessary is to deplete witness vote VP 100% and recharge it at 0%. Easy peasy. I also like the idea for witness downvotes.

I'd have used that feature more than once had it been in place.

Not a finance guy, so I'm not going to reveal my ignorance by commenting on your discussion regarding collateralizing HBD, although from what you describe the consequences of your proposals to be, I would strongly support acting to produce those effects.

We clearly do need to get in front of RC pools, before we have a massive problem to deal with during an influx of users during a moon event.

Not particularly sold on permanent vesting. Seems like that would create a new class of tokens, which would have far lower value since they couldn't be sold.

Documentation is absolutely necessary, as you point out. I find this issue linked to the founder's stake issue, and the question you raise as to how to incentivize development. That's what the founder's stake is supposed to be for, which is why we're here on Hive today and Sun has proved to be a scumbag destroying Steem.

I think it's a little ironic that you propose destroying that stake and in the same post lament the lack of developers annotating and creating improvements to the blockchain. Just as a thought experiment I wonder if you personally might submit a proposal to set out to document the codebase properly for a nominal rate of pay to be disbursed from the founder's stake, which you could destroy or whatever at your preference once you own it.

If you make a good case and suggest a reasonable rate of pay for your effort learning how the code works and spelling that out in the documentation you create, I'd be willing to vote for you to leave Amazon's employ entirely and become a full time autodidact. Hell, you could probably parlay that into a witness job before too long.

Thanks!