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RE: Next Livestream this Thursday, Dec. 6th at 11am CST
- They've done a lot of the work designing their SMT system already and probably aren't willing to pass it off, so anyone else would have to start from scratch.
- They're the only people with a reasonable idea of how the existing Steem code works as a whole.
If the community wants to tackle #2, since it seems Steemit Inc. isn't very interested in getting the documentation in shape, then maybe when that's done we can think about adding things. But starting from scratch to solve that problem is still going to be months of work if we can find anyone interested in doing it.
your absolutely right....I have a very simple financial solution.....
2 parts:
(1) - just add 1 line sponsorship to each page view (with a link) no ads though, they can advertise on their own site. would solve the monitary shortfall in no time.
They will need location & category control info but that can be very easy. So local small mom & pops can sponsor. Like your local tavern for the Rugby Blog. Or your local hair salon for a Glamor blog. Or local junk yard for a scrappers blog
Part (2) SteemIt needs to be a separate entity then Steem.
A Kickstarter/GofundMe account needs to be started to raise funds for starting a new open source company to:
to create an advisory committees to determine development and migration needed in the short, medium and long term, And set a public schedule with goals, and possible solutions.
That's how you turn this stuff around!
yeah good points. Shrugs, who knows. At this point, I am not counting on SMTs at all.
If they announce that they won't be doing it, some entrepreneur will probably pick it up (eventually). We already had a sort-of a proof of concept with @biophil's "pocket" tokens, back before anyone was talking about SMTs..
But I think no one is going to take the risk of competing with them for as long as they have one hand in and one hand out.
They did announce they aren't currently working on it.
they said they were tabling it, the problem is, say you start working on a token model and @ned does not like it...and the price of Steem comes back some (which it will)
Then the guys at Steem can hire back the 2 or 3 programmers that were working on it, and viola your aol netscape browser, Internet explorer comes out and knocks you off your perch, you use mozilla, but so does more funded companies like Google for Chrome and Safari on a Mac and not to mention Firefox's open source community...
You essentially become a dead man walking the same way Microsoft tricked Lotus and Wordperfect....How many people use those today????