RE: Real Talk: The Future of Steem
We first started talking about SMTs after Dan left. In that time, he fund raised, engineered and built EOS. We haven't accomplished much in that time.
I think he was already working on it before he left, certainly design if nothing else but possibly code too. He made a number of posts about building smart contracts on Steem, and that included reporting on having implemented some code to the proof-of-concept stage at least. Also, there was a reason for that whole dust-up over making the Steem code open source without management approval that happened right before he left (days, IIRC). My guess is that he already had large parts of the EOS design built on top of the Steem code mapped out, if not already implemented and needed the license change so he could use that work on a new chain.
Anyway your point on relative rate of progress is valid. It applies equally to other blockchain projects with well-functioning development not just EOS.
Yeah, I agree he might have been engineering it, but seriously a year-long ICO and building and it has already been out for 6 months.
Meanwhile, we are getting ready to accept SMTs Lite from SteemIt, Inc. Yeah the market took a rough road the last 2 months, but what about all the months leading up to that.
If they are our only plan,... I don't feel good about the future.
Yup we need drastic change. Keeping the same leadership will only continue to get the past results.
We must start from what and where we are now, not what and where we have been in the past or what and where we will be in the future.
What we are in the future is what and where we are now.
Change is now, the future is now, not yesterday or tomorrow.
When you want to change and make a plan to change tomorrow, you are still the same today... because tomorrow = today ...