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I imagine that will be up to them and is yet to be determined. They will choose the rules of engagement for the SMT. It is likely they will have some requirement for holding of the token to stop spam but will delegate that to new accounts that are verified with a phone number or attached to a unique phone ID or something similar. SMTs are still under development so there is some uncertainty as to how it will all work. You can see the whitepaper here https://smt.steem.com/

Cheers Rob. Thanks for taking the time

No problem. Hope your photo prize workshop is going well. Will have to enter your comp one year ;-)

The idea is that the user of the program will not need to know that it is based on steem unless they want to. Steem becomes simply an outsourced blockchain to record the activity so that the Dapps don't have to run their own blockchain nodes and worry about up-time and security etc but still get the advantage of their own token to do an ICO. They purchase the rights to interaction bandwith on the blockchain by buying and holding steem .

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