I forgot to mention, I invested around 0.3 BTC in STEEM in early May 2016 which was a good amount of bitcoin for me at the time. So yes I invested money too.

I find your criteria for what makes a good witness to be lacking. This post's premise isn't rational. Many of the masternodes for Dash were created with Dash (formerly Darkcoin) that was mined when it was easy. You don't have the whole picture, but you're talking as if you do.