Good post! I'm new to SteemIt but the concept is very exciting. I think there is a very real market for this type of platform. Personally, I think a lot of the success or failure of something like SteemIt will have to do with momentum and the ability to capitilize on it in regards to cryptocurrency making it's way into the world as commonplace. As you said, bitcoin is not an easy to understand concept for most people and they've really only heard of it from random news articles. I feel like that's going to change slowly with serious spurts of growth peppered in there and the developers/companies that are prepared to capitalize on those spurts of growth with marketing/educational campaigns will be the ones to not only jump up in value but stabilize. Of course, the baseline has to be a solid product and SteemIt seems solid to me.