Is Steem-Engine a dead end?

Most of you probably have many steem-engine tokens and with the split of the chain, it might be an interesting question to know what will happen with these tokens. Steem-engine will continue to work, but what is the point if most content creators move to hive? This doesn't make much sense and the owners of Steem-engine are trying to tackle this problem which seems not so simple to solve.

What happens with tribes?

I see many tribes that, because of steem-engine are linked to steem and can't move to hive. There seems to be some tweaking with scotbot to go around this but still the market will be running with steem as basis currency.

Why not just airdrop tokens to hive

Hive-engine is actually already up and running but not much is happening there yet. At first sight it might sound interesting just to airdrop the existing tokens on hive-engine. From a legal point of view this causes problems as @retinox points it out:

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Start a new tribe on hive?

There are many steem-engine tribes with their own tokens but it seems not possible to just move them to hive. On the contrary tribe owners are asked to pay again for putting up their token and tribe on hive. This seems not the good way to go. As @jongolson puts it:

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Is there a solution?

I can't speak from a technical point of view because all this is too complicated for me but it would be nice if Token and Tribe owners could choose to move their token from steem-engine to hive-engine without costs. I can also understand that this whole situation is a big challenge for the owners of steem-engine but it would be nice if tribes and token holders wouldn't have to duplicate their investment to have their tribe/token on hive.

There will be a discord meeting on April 1st and hopefully a solution can be found that is satsifactory for all users.

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