Dan Dicks, I listened to your interview about Steem on the Corbett Report.

Unfortunately you didn’t seem to be aware (at least at the time of the interview) that virtual phone numbers can be obtained for free in bulk quantities these days. Thus, phone numbers and email addresses verify nothing.

And in fact we have evidence that Steemit, Inc (aka STINC) may be surreptitiously allowing the creation of up to 8000 signups per day which are fake accounts. Thus possibly awarding up to 120,000 STEEM POWER tokens per day to some nefarious group. STINC is probably lying which they have a long history of doing starting with the sleazy way they launched the site so they would end up with ~80% of the tokens.

This impacts you because if the above is true, then it means the demise of Steem is eventually likely.

I would also suggest reading the following:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@anonymint/re-marc99-re-cryptovestor-critical-analysis-of-steem-and-why-i-m-invested-20180414t094304754z