"before mass marketing gets here"

It's already here. Plus cops. Lots of cops. They are spending a lot of effort matching faces to bitcoin addresses to get rid of that whole 'anonymity' and 'privacy' thing.

Steemit is like a pay to play swimming pool at the police station right now, I am looking for something a lot more like 4chan where bumps give you coin. Another steem competitor is just starting up out of tel aviv, like hell if i'm going to jump on board israeli crap.

We are seeing a plethora of already compromised solutions for free speech and new currency, it may be a lot longer before we have the real deal.