The experiment should continue. On all levels.

That includes SMTs, or whichever minimal version of it. As they will allow what Ned always called “UX issue” and those who want other monetization matrices can stake their SP to those SMTs.

We truly should look al Apache, both the software and the org, and also W3C. Neither ever moved fast but they had a goal in mind and it happened as a community.

Keeping their success in mind, it becomes blatantly obvious that the central institution in the experiment was the single point of failure (this isn’t an attack on Steemit or Ned, but an observation at this point) and has withheld the Steem dev and promo scene from growing and becoming more dynamic than all current rather small initiatives. Mostly by being the ever present shadow, an involuntary one I think, and also a sword of Damocles at times - an involuntary one as well but merely involuntary born out of naivety this time.

All this is a blessing after all because it allows us to step out of that shadow and actually rather than always talk to/direct at Ned... this time the act needs to be cleaned up by everyone.

Whatever that means for freedom is just as much up for grabs as before. Freedom in an environment like this is free, not as in beers but as in movement, and everyone has their own definition of it.

Lastly, in a slightly more distant future than the “SMT release”, we should by now have learned that Steemit Inc should also be decoupled from being the blockchain dev crew and become a cog in the chain.

Whether that means they become a witness then too... maybe they best throw that at the community given stake.

It is an eventual necessity tho. Both for them and for the community to get a focus on the wider needs, a focus not dominated by one company.

Example need: looking at the current witness server requirements... how will those ever scale to 2m daily users?

There’s work to be done. Lots.

The game starts now.

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