Thanks for the answer, Andrew.
I guess for the value of STEEM it all comes down to whether we can find enough people, businesses and communities that want to use the network and are willing to pay for it by staking/leasing STEEM.
That leads to one more question I have wanting to ask for a while.
When all the work surrounding SMT's and communities are complete and the features are live. Is finding businesses that want to use these awesome tools something Steem Inc. will pursue or will the focus be on more blockchain development and steemit.com or maybe a combination of both?
This is something we're already doing and would like to do more of. This falls on the non-engineering members of the team and the engineers would still be focused on their products. If anyone has any leads, they can feel free to e-mail me at andrarchy@steemit.com. There's lots more work to be done on Hivemind, SMTs, and Steem core. I expect both Hivemind and SMTs to continue to receive updates for as long as Steem is update-able. As the market discovers new use cases for cryptocurrencies, the features that enable those use cases should be added to the SMT protocol. The potential for Hivemind is unlimited and it can continue to be updated even if Steem were to become un-update-able for whatever reason. This is only one of the reasons why I think Hivemind may be the most potentially disruptive piece of software we've released.