Thanks for your answers Iamnotback.   From what I heard there will be a fork that will prevent people with a small amount of voting power to vote, probably to encourage users to buy steem power. This is not going to work as it creates a barrier to entry( buying bitcoin,etc..) Instead Dan Larimer should publish a kind of roadmap so that investors know what there are getting into.

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I noticed that you are knowledgable about steem so I wanted to ask you this question.

Am I right to think that the inflation of steem is higher than we think because people can power down anytime they want ? let me know if this is a stupid question

With the high rate of inflation the price has a lot of downward pressure as seen in recent days, will the rewards go down a lot or what would happen?

Dan Larimer and the steem community does not seem to be concerned at all about this, but I have heard from many that the lack of incentives to buy steem will be the downfall of steemit

Do you think a marketplace would slow down sell pressure?

I was thinking maybe steemit could fund companies too and get some sort of ROI?

Also advertisers could buy some space on the steemit website with steem?

I have read some of your posts on steemit.com and they are very insightfull . I would love if you could right a post about models to sustain the platform, this would wake up the steemit community on a matter that I think is pressing. I am curious what Dan thinks about this, he seems to think that his system is perfect and won't need advertisement, this is dangerous thinking.

I agree but the substance ( earning money) is not there on steemit for 80% of the newbie so UI is more important to keep them on the site.I would think that with a tech community it would be trivial to get a UI that doesn't look so outdated but it seems not.

Steemit website looks like it was built in the 80's, it's awful.

Seriously this site give such a bad image to crypto and it makes the project looks so cheap. Dan and Ned ( I believe ) have tried to improved some aspect of the design today but it got even worse, really they shouldn't even try to work on the front end, they clearly suck.

It's a shame that the site pays playmates 10k USD per post but can't get a dev to code a new modern UI.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@steve-walschot/dear-steemit-why-do-you-undervalue-your-developers-who-make-this-platform-big-and-usable

The minimalist UI argument is moot, you can have a very clean design that doesn't look like a stone aged website.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@etherdesign/new-website-design-for-steemit  This user came up with a pretty good design and is probably more suited than Dan for the job. Dan clearly has no idea what a UI should look like in 2016.

... it was built in the 80's


Seriously this site give such a bad image to crypto and it makes the project looks so cheap. Dan and Ned ( I believe ) have tried to improved some aspect of the design today but it got even worse, really they shouldn't even try to work on the front end, they clearly suck.

It's a shame that the site pays playmates 10k USD per post but can't get a dev to code a new modern UI.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@steve-walschot/dear-steemit-why-do-you-undervalue-your-developers-who-make-this-platform-big-and-usable

The minimalist UI argument is moot, you can have a very clean design that doesn't look like a stone aged website.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@etherdesign/new-website-design-for-steemit  This user came up with a pretty good design and is probably more suited than Dan for the job. Dan clearly has no idea what a UI should look like in 2016.


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