First off, a hearty congratulation with your position with the EOS Team, @lukestokes!

Your thoughts of moving development away from STINC's sole control sounds like a good thing to me.

Assuming trust in the sacred 20 is another matter. My continued support of you as a steem witness will hopefully make clear the following post is not aimed at you, yet it does suggest the number one mod needed to make steem investor friendly.

My hope is that you would consider and support a software scheme whereby Proof of Brain can be proven.

For your reading pleasure...

https://steemit.com/steem-network/@novacadian/where-is-the-trust-in-proof-of-brain-mining