I heard the steemic inc team recently discussing if switching of all proof-of-brain mining for STEEM in a post-SMT world (think HF24,25 or something like that) and leaving that to communities and SMTs completely.
So there's more controversial things to come eventually ;) Exciting times!
WTF. That's just so counter to the revolutionary possibilities of Steem. I just ...sigh.
Well... I actually see some appeal in that idea.
STEEM as a fee-less transaction- and data-layer with STEEM-like SMTs on top of it, basically what steem-engine is doing but not privately owned on not an even more centralized side-chain, right on the base-layer of the steem blockchain, it might not be the worst move for the platform long term.
But we don't even have those infamous SMTs yet and this was all just a speculation about potential moves forward from there. It's not actually being planned for yet, or so they said.
Mmm. I guess we'll just have to see how things pan out as they come.