The early adopters get to earn and stake hive first, but I fear that this staking mechanism can be exploited by the ultra-rich. These ultra-rich folks are already "staked" in the current "fiat" economy, but they can just take their dollars and buy a ton of Hive Power and use that to give themselves undue influence on this Hive platform.

They can use dollars to concentrate and centralized power in a platform that is supposed to be decentralized and you saw that with Steem. That is how Hive was born. A person (Sun) with a ton of money bought Steemit and had a disproportionate influence on the Steem blockchain and so we forked. Will people just keep forking over and over?

The root of this staking problem is a deeper technical issue with the consensus mechanism in Hive and an issue with the consensus mechanisms in the blockchain universe in general. This technical issue is also a more universal issue.

It is this ancient battle between centralization and decentralization and you see this battle play out in every sphere both social, technical, physical, biological, economical, etc. I will write a long post about this.

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