Good job Dan and Ned upvoting this and linine up the whale cabal to get this to the top. Allthough there is no financial investment required the system will not work unless there is financial invesment in the form of people buying steem. Otherwise the system fails. The lauch of the mining on bitcoin talk was shady to say the very very LEAST. IT was not possible for everyone to mine at launch and this allowed the founders to mine the majortiy of the coins in a short time. You can not in anyway compare this to satoshi. Satoshi did not have any idea any of the coins would be worth anything, where as we know very well pletny of altcoins are launched and worth something. It is a totaly different enviorment, and since we are not in a vaccum it is important to think about that.