Not an easy article to write and publish here for sure, because I am biased and opinionated. The goal of this article is not to be gentle. It's about explaining my attempt to improve the concept of STEEM, so mostly only the weaknesses of it are mentioned.

If you think I'm talking trash for nothing and my proposed solutions are not working, just prove it by using dtube and showcase how any point in this article is wrong.

Where does the value of the USD come from? Bitcoin? Ethereum? Steem?

Well I guess DTC will be close to the same answer than STEEM, having no powering up doesn't mean people don't have an incentive to hold it to generate more voting power. DTC also has some burning features like account creation and the promote that you can already try. Another arguable value for the token, will be the incentive to go up in the leaders election, in order to produce more blocks and earn more rewards.