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RE: Experimenting with PALnet - A Day Later
When is SMT supposed to be fully released? And how do you think it'll affect the steemsphere?
When is SMT supposed to be fully released? And how do you think it'll affect the steemsphere?
hi @stortebeker
Do you actually still believe that SMT would become reality? I'm not so sure any more. I feel that it's one of those promises that will not be delivered. Partly because SMTs will be 99% considered securities by SEC and that could potentially cause some serious challenges for Steemit Inc.
Yours
Piotr
Honestly, I have no idea. Ever since I first heard about bitcoin and cryptos I have been collecting information, opinions, analyses, always trying to keep an objective approach. However, up until now I've felt that I still lack the amount of understanding needed to form my own opinion. I would not be surprised either way.
I would not go as far as to state a date, but following they last rhythm of releases I can bet that on the last two months of this year we can expect to have them at least partially implemented. At that time, @aggroed team will have developed further steem-engine and scott bot/nitrous instances... they are just to addict to hard work 😝 hence a interests conflict most likely will arise between the Steemit Inc and aggroed's team, most likely aggroed's products will be popular and more awesome that the first SMT release... I am afraid that Steemit Inc will not manage the situation properly and a fork might occur.
Dunno if I'm just too pessimist, but the last couple of years we have witnessed some awesome sub-communities such as Whaleshares, Weku, Bearshares, Scorum, Sprtshub, etc fork the blockchain code and launch their own platform because Steemit Inc not being able to negotiate and include those developers in their plans for the platform (despite it being open source, and the witnesses being not under direct control of Steemit Inc, they can just vote their own set of witnesses with their huge stake).
I also want to know what do you think about this regard 🙂
Cheers.
Good to know! Amen on the sub-communities. It seems like the entire steem community is outgrowing SteemIt if it hasn't happened already. It's supposed to be decentralized, sure, but of course it also had to grow out of somewhere. But now, with so many amazing developments, there may not even be a need for the original Steemit any longer. Except, hahaha, all the vested whales... But I'd say, bring on the fork. It's kinda like how you feel better after vomiting when you're sick. Maybe it just needs to happen.
Anyhow, if it takes that long before the full SMT release, there should be enough time to consider everything from all sides. This is also why I asked for, and appreciate your opinion. Something to keep in perspective, and compare to what others say.
Best regards.