RE: The Future Of Bitshares And EOS...?
hmmm... reading through that makes me wish I had perhaps cashed out more of my BTS when it peaked around 40 cents... ha ha.
I'd be quite surprised if there weren't some sort of integrations between Steem and EOS.
My thoughts on Steem... I'd like to think it'd boom, for selfish reasons. Though to be perfectly honest, I'm really not sure.
It's a great experiment. Though as to whether its foundations and capacities for adaptation are strong enough to persist in the vision of larger success most of us who've invested would like to see materialize, I dunno. Undoubtedly, there will be similar platforms that come onto the scene - and it may not be a matter of competition and one emerging dominant, so much as they just serve different niches - thus likely distributing funds and users across a breadth.
SMTs could be a great means of expanding the userbase - though probably largely depends on adoption, and its strengths against other alternative systems offering similar platforms.
Difficult to view objectively. Tough to keep up with all the developments in the blockchain space, and thus gauge where Steem is at relative to everything else - and it's been a weird love-hate relationship as the journey has unfolded here, having high hopes give way to disillusionment when I've seen my ideals for the platform conflict with the reality of where it seems to have evolved / is evolving to. Regardless, it's still great to see the community growing and progress being made, so I've still kept the bulk of my Steem Power locked in rather than powering down to invest elsewhere...
Well maybe you could help me out with some of that SP ;)
But in all seriousness, where do you see a competitor to the SMT design with an already vetted proof of concept? I haven't seen one and thats why the SMT idea is a great one. It diversifies STEEM away from just being a content curation social media token into an ICO hybrid and platform for monetization on non-blockchain websites. To me it's brilliant, and I'd like to think I'm not being biased.
I agree, it's a great idea with a proven concept, a complete suite of features that there probably are no "competitors" for in all its functionality.
Though, the questions are: is there a market demand for the product? What's the marketing strategy to introduce and integrate the system upgrade into existing business models where there may not already be a demand because its a relatively new concept? Is the core team in charge capable of that sales end? (Answers: I'm personally not sure.)