I did read that post from blocktrades and the project recently, and did not understand it. I do things like travel posts and helping minnows with low rc, so I normally don't look up here. like I said, your title allured me today.

I think they want to pay people to help/work here at steem or steemit and now how should that be funded? I have not got the level of knowledge to know any of those answers.

I know blocktrades is already rich, so I'm not sure they need money and I have no idea why people need to be hired here, but if they do - just hire them and be done with it. Anyone churning out some work and improvements anywhere would be thrilling for us all. But again, my opinion does not matter anyway.

All I know about smt's as that they were announced to be imminent in the summer of 2017 and made the price of steem/sbd jump. 2019 sounds like 2020 or 2021 to me lol.

RocksDB <<< New one on me! At least it is creatively named :)