Before bringing in investors the platform needs to be cleaned up! yeah bidbots bring short term success to some greedy people and some crumbs to the rest to desperate to see that their greed is killing the platform. They need to go! A second rewards pool for evergreen content needs to be built .
If this platform is to become some thing it needs to shine with the content it provides and the community it builds .

Do we have some good communities here - yeah but they are insular and swimming in a ton of shit ... we need to clean house and build a strong foundation so investors will want to be a part of this . shitpost central and 8% retention rate is not going to sell to anyone who does not want to do a rape on our already ailing platform ...

as for real world application. I have talked about a reloadable steem debit cards and readers before ...like this people who want to get away from the corrupt fiat money system could just offer goods and labor for steem ...