I don't know, I'm not an expert but what I hear you saying or the quoted blog is saying, Steem needs to create more money to make the site more attractive and we'll create new non-human(?) accounts through mining??

If the great social networking platforms have millions of users and only a very small percentage of them get 'paid' while Steemit only has a few thousands and people here are paid ridiculous amounts... why is it still not growing rapidly?? What is steem doing wrong?

1. Usability, we can't use it to communicate to our families and friends. It's not the go-to place for real news (except for crypto and maybe tech).

2. Marketing and creating a 'need' for this new platform. Again the question, why should people move to steem? Surely getting paid is reason enough? But why is it not happening... And yet you have loads of sites that don't pay users but users are addicted to them.

C'mon think tanks, think.