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1. Intro - A Personal overview
I joined Hive blockchain at the end of 2021. I was onboarded while I was navigating through the crypto world and I met Hive and the opportunity to blog and own 100% of my content. That caught me fast. The blockchain is a sea of opportunities; you can blog, game, and explore the 2nd layer in Hive Engine. You take some moments to familiarize yourself. But after the first post reward, you learn about the second token of the blockchain the Hive Backed Dollars (HBD). Your post rewards come half in staked Hive or Hive Power (HP) and half in HBD, which is your liquid reward. The stability of HBD compared to Hive gave my investor a conservative side and an opportunity. There is also a staking system for HBD called HBD savings. The APR of this staking right now is 15%, it was 20% a while ago, but is still good. That made me move personal money that I had in regular banks to the blockchain for this staking. The security of a stable coin, plus attractive APRs compared to regular conservative bank investments, and the feeling that I am my own manager of the money. That is mostly what brought me to this decision
2. What is HBD and its security
HBD is minted on the decentralized blockchain called Hive, where independent validators (or witnesses, how we call in the blockchain) are running nodes all around the world signing transactions. So dozens of servers worldwide are running the blockchain and if one country decides to block the network of that country still we will have many other people in other countries making the blockchain to run nonstop. The transactions are feeless and fast . The stable coin keeps its value while backed by Hive, 1 HBD is roughly backed by 1 USD in Hive. There is a system called HBD stabilizer that makes sure to back this pegged value. However, there is a security for this system to avoid a new UST/LUNA-like break: HBD issuance is limited by the debt between HBD and Hive should always be smaller than 30% . The deppeging can occur if we reach this threshold