Nearly 1 billion? No man steem was worth nearly 2 billion, it was 1.8billion and the answer is because Ned was and is arrogant and or doesnt care.... hes rich enough off regular bitcoin and steem is just his side project

LOL Pocketing the money? What money? More like bleeding money.
Um no youre half right they are doing nothing for marketing, afraid it will overload the steem blockchain, protecting the steem namespace, as if that matters