A decentralised blockchain of centralised companies--thats the future of steem. My prediction. I know that undermines your vision of the role of stakeholders in the future of steem.
Lol, how so? those businesses will be centralized in their experience and through their SMT while the blockchain they interact on is pinned by investors, pinned by people like me. It is exactly what I envisage and have been saying for 2 years now.
An individual won't be buying Steem, they will be on applications. Haven't you been reading? Perhaps stop skimming.
These were the paragraphs i was addressing:
The areas I touched in my first reply where not focused on the major point of the article. So we went off topic and back again.
So back to what you were saying (i think we have a similar vision of what steem would be like in the future). About price, and people's attitude towards it. Like you said and i also believe that the price of steem doesn't reflect the development happening here. The price of steem hasn't fallen or risen significantly in the last 4-5months. It has been between $.30-$.50. I hope it remains this way for a year or two. For most people who have spent money buying steem, their expectations might be different as most people buy for speculative reasons and not necessarily to add value to the chain. They are not investors/longterm players, they are speculators/short term players (well both might mean the same thing). So i understand their frustration. Just putting things into perceptive. We all came here for different reasons. Primary to make money but via different means.
I complaining too and that's not necessary a bad thing. If we all where optimistic about steem and ignored its faults we probably would not make any meaningful change. You can complain and provide solutions--that is resourceful. Although I'm not complaining about price but development wise i think we need to up our game. Not just creating codes and dapps but communities. For someone who came here with no idea about crypto or money to buy steem, they played an important role. Many newbies face this same challenge. For a blockchain like ours 7k daily active users is poor. If we can double that in six months maybe i would be optimistic once again. But with the EIP i don't think we are heading in the right direction.
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The communities are develeoped around the Dapps and the Dapps are developed around the code. See the issue? The communities you mention being part of were like the discord communties that surround some kind of topic genre but, don't actually have an application to peg themselves to. They don't have an application because no one built one because that requires skills and resources many of the communities don't possess. Those with the skills and resources to build the apllications that become homes for communities, care about the code.