I looked on the mining part of Steem a week or two ago also, when I found a small tutorial on how to do it. But as you say, the blocks sais they will take a tremendous amount of time to be included and you can't really see how it all works. The reward of 1 STEEM per block included didn't really cut it for me to be running a miner.
It would be great if it was easier for anyone to run a client to make the network mining more diverse and get a small reward for it. But as it is now, running 24 hrs and not getting anything because 2 users has most of the power doesn't work well.
I was just interested to try it. We've seen the arms race with bitcoin mining. I guess Steem could go the same way. Might have got something if I'd been there at the start
True, but I decided to try to write some great posts instead :) They give me more Steem than mining can do in the pace my machine can do it anyway :P
Likewise. Posting and commenting is fun anyway