Can anyone explain why whaleshares doesn't have the inflation protection for vested balances that steem has?
Why should I *not* claim the sharedrop, withdraw and sell as quickly as the rules allow?
AFAIK you cannot powerdown until mid october, and the rate of powerdown is affected by the platform's inflation rate.
Yes, that's what I meant with "as quickly as the rules allow".
I'm not sure about inflation protection, do you mean receiving rewards for held stakepower over time?
STEEM pays 90% of inflation into the vested steem pool, which looks like "interest" on vested steem / steem power. Apparently WLS doesn't do that, so effectively vested WLS are losing value due to inflation.
If you don't want the tokens then you're free to sell them as you see fit, I wouldn't let the economic policies get in the way of claiming your sharedrop. I'm sure people would be interested in picking up some cheap WLS on the BTS DEX.
I don't think it's impossible to change the economic policies through future hard forks, but steemit doesn't pay interest on steem power neither, you can only earn with your vote weight through curation rewards, no?