Dan's point is that under the current system it's easier to abuse the system, i.e. make 10 posts daily with a bot and upvote them than it is to police those kind of behaviors and thus those behaviors will become the norm and will permeate Steem and those who engage in it will become the most prosperous Steemians which will leave everyone in need to engage in those behaviors.
I might have misunderstood Dan's point and I'm not saying his point or solution are correct but Steem's incentives are fundamental to Steem's success and can't be relegated to an afterthought.
I've just written some more thoughts on the subject here.
Flagged for aggrandizement I suppose.
Dear @teamsteem ,
I voted for you as a witness, I have an important question:
for to exchange Steem into another crypto currency we all need an account at a crypto currency exchange. There are 2: Bittrex and Poloniex
Bittrex stopped open new accounts since 15th december, when they start again? Nobody knows.
At Poloniex I tried to sign up a new account yesterday, until today I got no confirmation mail to start the opening procedure!
So what to do?
How can new users exchange their steem? That's the big question and I don't understand why Steemit and the big "whales" not offer any support for that problem, they all have their accounts already.... That makes we wonder, really, because that's the main reason why people join Steemit, to earn a little money, but if there is no possibility for exchange steem, all is useless.
Have you any idea?
I think opening an account on poloniex should be pretty instantaneous.
Other exchanges are listed here but they are pretty limited.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem/#markets
Thank you, I did it now on blocktrades with success
@blocktrades is fast but quite expensive
I was really surprised, I changed Steem into lightcoin and send lightcoin to Bitcoin exchange Thailand, the fees were very low, and it was really very fast, some minutes. I really feel better now after my first payout experience, hehehe
@teamsteem
just finished my post about my first payout experience, I hope I can motivate many newbees.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@zanoni/my-first-payout-experience-on-steemit-100-trust-and-motivation
Best regards, thanks for your time and attention you spend.
Best regard
Tom