By behiver on Skatehive
I was just looking through my rewards history and to one of my last posts I observed that I only got Hive and Hive Power for it, even if I set to receive the rewards as 50% HBD and 50% Hive power. For an article where the rewards were valued at $3.652, the author rewards allocated were $1.829 which actually resulted in 15.252 Hive Power and 15.246 Hive. As we can see there is no HBD rewards for it, even if according to my settings I should get half of that in it. But why that happens? The answers stands in the HBD debt ratio which because of the Hive price and the HBD supply and spending, is extremely high - thus the HBD print rate got to 0% (effectively disabled). Let's see some math explaining that as of today. The current situation (April 2026) on the Hive blockchain is as following: HBD supply ≈ 33 million HIVE market cap ≈ ~32 million USD (at ~$0.058–0.06) This puts the HBD debt ratio extremely high (around or above the critical threshold). And now let's see the result on the HBD