As of 2018, Steemit has been my favorite blockchain social network over BearShares.com and DreamReal.com and Serey.io and Smoke.io and Weku.io and other Steem.io related forks. I'm not talking about platforms like Busy.org that are built upon the Steem (not Steam) blockchain base, root, foundation. I'm not talking about the application (apps), the decentralized apps (dApps), Busy, Dtube, etc.

I like the competition between Steem, Serey, Minds.com, Gab.com, etc, etc. May the better systems rise and may it continue to push the competitors towards competing. That is how the free market works to some extent. We do not live in a world with 100% free markets as governments, technocracy, corporatism, plutocracy, globalism, and many systems, all around world, have been taxing and limiting and suppressing free markets. For example, the United States of America (USA), in the 1900's, capitalism declined, especially in the 1930's, as crony capitalism rose. America has been more free but still not completely free. Projects like Steem, Bit Torrent, Ubuntu, Brave, Info Wars, P2P projects, Substratum, open source projects, etc, etc, have been trying to minimize cronyism and other things. We are still facing so many issues in the world. The good news is that we are working on a bunch of projects right now, internationally, and we are getting more people involved. May we continue to do these things more and more with all the original oatmeal that we can find before it is too late. The Steemit Inc About Us Page might have said that the Steem cryptocurrency are owned by the company according to the disclaimer section at the bottom of that page, which says as follows:

DISCLAIMER

Steemit Inc. (The “Company”), is a private company that helps develop the open-source software that powers steemit.com, including steemd. The Company may own various digital assets, including, without limitation, quantities of cryptocurrencies such as STEEM. These assets are the sole property of the Company. Further, the Company’s mission, vision, goals, statements, actions, and core values do not constitute a contract, commitment, obligation, or other duty to any person, company or cryptocurrency network user and are subject to change at any time.

Steem vs Bitcoin

People say that Bitcoin is not owned by a company. We could talk about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. People say that Bitcoin is not completely like a share as it is not of a company. My question would be in contrast and comparison with that and with that of Steem. Specifically, governments have been trying to stop Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by connecting them to companies, to certain things that might be taxable or criminalized or whatever the case may be. Steem may run into these types of issues, assuming that they haven't already, legally, depending on some of these factors, in regards to different laws in different countries and especially the laws in America. I encourage people to study law or at least the fourth amendment of the U.S. constitution. I wish and pray for the best for blockchain and cryptocurrency and solar power and open source and P2P and other such projects.