Anyway: don't get me wrong, I really appreciate all your efforts, and it will be very interesting to observe the impact of - for example - SMTs and other exciting developments.
However, apart from that, I wonder how the not so crypto affine potential investor is watching us, what matters for him, what he is seeing first when thinking about his first crypto investment? Isn't still the idea of combining a facebook/Instagram like site (like Steemit) with the opportunity of earning money most appealing? I really recommend not to neglect and not to oversee the importance of Steemit.
... but if they do wait until then I can pretty much guarantee they won’t be buying in at $0.70 STEEM.
And if you are right with your prediction, I will be more than happy, and especially a person like you, who invests a huge amount of time in promoting (and improving) STEEM would more than deserve that!
I think we both want the same thing. I just don’t think steemit.com is going to get us there. Check out SteemPeak.com for example. It is already way better than steemit. If they were to add their own SMT (once SMTs are live) with a better distribution and stakeholders who are willing to fight bid bots (not saying they will, just giving an example) we would be a lot closer to the goal.