IMO the system should find a balance to attract both short-term and long-term investors.

Can this not be resolved with the upcoming SMTs? People can design their power-downs however they see fit, no?

I would like Steem, as the backbone of it all, to ultimately be incredibly robust and stable in which people can't just P&D, hack & steal, and so forth.

Well anyway, I do think 13 weeks seems weirdly arbitrary and lengthy, but 1 month seems totally reasonable to me