I suppose it's important that we start stressing actual business models on top of Steem. If anybody is running an actual business that doesn't take its revenues from the reward pool, that person or organization would have an intrinsic motivation to have its own infrastructure under control, therefore could run it and potentially offer to outsiders, as well. Is anybody out there?

Hi @grintsch! We're building @dstors and I can tell you that our revenue model is not based on taking out of the reward pool. On the contrary, the objective is to distribute the existing reward pool to those on the blockchain who perform any and all economic activities related to their sales through their own @dstors. You can peruse the executive summary of the whitepaper that was released a few days ago on our blog. Yes, we're out there! Focused exclusively on giving back to the users as much as possible while introducing new models of interaction with the blockchain beyond what steemit.com initially offered through blogging.