On paper, Steemit has a lot of potential both as a social blogging venue built around this unusual hybrid revenue sharing (or whatever you want to call it) model, as well as potential as a "soft gateway" for a broad spectrum of people to get an introduction to cryptocurrencies. I mean, WOW! That's amazing!

But how to execute that idea in a sustainable fashion? The last 18 years is littered with failed attempts. Typically, the same cluster of issues, in some combination: Lacking technology, lacking safeguards against the system being gamed, lacking community, poorly implemented features, lacking grip (or acceptance?) of the depth of greed inherent within most human nature, lack of patience, lack of resources, lack of funding...

Again, I'm neither a developer nor an alt-coin enthusiast-- I'm a writer, blogger and self-employed independent who's been studying independent solo- and entrepreneurship for a really long time... so I'm probably not bringing the typical perspective to the table... but I appreciate this forum to share it.