@jerrybanfield, thanks for taking initiative and keep fighting with ideas. @budgets are for future projects or initial projects. @utopian-io rewards the opensource projects that contribute to the STEEM blockchain. Can we see some collaboration between @budgets and @utopian-io funding early stage and mid-stages of projects.
Another thing, may be the most important thing for STEEM, recently LTC went 10x in 6 months and 6x in one month. I was a LTC miner form March, 2013 until Feb, 2016. I have seen LTC meteoric rise from 50 cents to $350 in front of my eyes. LTC is traded more than 400 pairs in more than 100s of exchanges. On the other hand, STEEM is traded with 15 pairs in less than 10 exchanges.
Can we have similar effort @exchanges-io where funds will be directed to add STEEM pairs (e.g. USDT, BTC, ETH) in top exchanges. @zappl is already in talk with multiple exchanges. What I think is that besides fundamentals, exchanges is the single most predictor for success of Coin. LTC in Coinbase shows its strength among the currencies. Why not STEEM in Coinbase in a year.
You could use this new @budgets process to fund getting STEEM listed on exchanges. It doesn't really need a new tag. Or you could talk to @utopian-io about creating an area within it for exchange listings (although I think it's a little different vision than what @utopian-io does now).
It is hard a normal user to make connections to add STEEM or any crypto to exchanges. Exchange demand guaranteed tech support and some compensation from the core developers and foundation. Therefore, it needs effort from the higher order users. Moreover, I think setting up STEEM has a major technical difficulty: proof is regular outage of transfers from Poloniex and HitBTC. Therefore, it requires a great effort from top shots of Steemit or Steemit Inc. Only @zappl seems to be taking some actions.
That makes sense. I didn't realize it was so complicated.