The power down has led to the spontaneous pulling of several key Steemit Inc. delegations, most importantly @dsound .... which besides @dtube is literally the most visible dapp ambassador getting new creatives to the Steem blockchain. How Steemit Inc. ... a private company ... handles their stake is up to them and whatever moves they need to make to keep the business and their shareholders on-board, that’s for them to decide. If their interests are in bringing new people to the chain and increasing the viability of Steem as a dapp infrastructure, the delegation and subsequent increntivized MANUALLY CURATED BY STAFF upvote is the carrot that has gotten many, including myself, hooked. Building relationships, diving into other forward-thinking crypto musician’s catalogs... all that came in time. The patronage from the dapp itself (and a lively discord server) is what builds the community in the first place. People thinking another 1mil sp will just appear from the ether or that the consistent “community reward” feeling upvote wasn’t a huge motivator to undertake the infrastructure move to host one’s content and social media life on Steem are kidding themselves and completely out of touch with the reality of being a creative on this platform. If you want dapps to succeed on here (and by any metric @dsound is the gold standard of successful Steem dapp) .... you need to incentivize their upvote. Especially when the community you are incentivizing is legitimately putting this delegation to work in a fair and motivating way.

Please @ned ... there is zero logic to singling out @dsound ‘s delegation and not @dtube or any other heavyweight high value add to the Steem blockchain (and obviously thats not what anybody is looking for.) It sends the wrong message to creatives like myself (and literally hundreds of panic’d others) about the long term viability of Steem as a platform for our content, especially given the intense focus on community and almost idealistically encouraging curation @dsound built with said delegation. Literally the best thing you have going for your business and Steem on the whole are communities like these, and capitalistic as it may sound, they are predicated on a weighty upvote as motivator and instigator. Fourteen months on steemit...this is the most immutable fact.

Patronize those who do the curating and community building for you.