You need ETH to use Ethereum.

And we need HP to transact on Hive. It is masked differently but the same premise holds. Hive does not have it charged on a per transaction basis.

Even moving chains is possible as weve seen DLIVE do easily for LINO, APPICS left STEEM for TELOS the other day. DTUBE created their own chain, Avalon, and Dtube team is like 3 guys. All those are ex STEEM dapps. Id say its not that difficult.

Sure it is possible but what did it do? How decentralized is the chain that Dtube is on? Where are their points of vulnerability? EOS was suppose to be the best thing since sliced bread yet that chain has failed to magically transform the world. In fact, Telos has surpassed it on many levels yet is still far from mainstream.

In many other blockchains the second layer is secured by the base layer. On HIVE that is not the case. If you wanted to secure your project it would be far wiser to just be friends with Agrroed and Matt and pray they look left and right every time they cross the street so they dont get hit by a car, HIVE ENGINE shuts down and your project is left hanging.

This is true. HE is a point of contention for many. I presume this is why there is the sudden push to decentralize it (I think that came from Dan). Too many do not like depending upon just Aggroed and his team (although I dont think Matt does a lot of development for HE, he is more spliterlands; others are handling the exchange).

HE might be complemented by something that blocktrades, I think is working on, a smart contract server system. If that is implemented, we could see things spreading out rather quickly.

i dont think many witnesses would stick around and waste their money.

If that is the case, so be it. There are a few witnesses we know arent going anywhere who have the ability to operate the chain. If a percentage left, that would open the door for others to step in.

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