For some reason when you started talking I suddenly got the idea for a real life crypto game where you try to kidnap eachother's stuffed animals to earn crypto. I know...weird...

Perhaps Steem could be patched in a way to hide one's balance. Or you could simply hold the majority of your balance in another account. Large stake holders could also split their SP among bots that auto-vote them and their friends.

I personally am not really a huge fan of how bitcoin keeps everything out in the open. I think when large scale adoption comes, perhaps there might be more of a push for more privacy oriented coins. And perhaps there will be forks to go more privacy centric.

I certainly don't like the idea of crypto kidnapping being on the rise when so many idiots on here were trying to get everyone to show proof they were real people, and they were in turn dumb enough to give out WAY too much info about themselves online. Giving out your first name and showing your face is one thing...but we don't need to know your full name. We don't need to know your family member's full names. We don't need to know enough to steal your identity. In a few years, if some of those people's accounts are worth a lot, they'll possibly be easy targets. Even if they're not, someone in dire straights might just try. Hopefully they remember their keys and nothing horrible happens because they lost them.