Crypto could be seen as even higher risk than equities.

Number of active authors is falling back to the stable level over much of 2017.

Coming from $20k it was hard to fall much further. This will test the strength around $4k, to build upon next year.

If you added content-based advertising on the whole platform, regardless of any relationship between advertiser and user, the platform could then distribute the total advertising: to all holders of steem,

It would be so easy for facebook or even twitter to add crypto features. They would be able to spread adoption so quickly... which hopefully is good for the existing players too (Cough Steemit Cough).

Pretty cool guy!

Raiblocks is going crazy because of no fees, lots of potential here too!

Sounds 'almost' too good to be true :P

Incredible!!

Nice article, would be handy to add links to a list of the previous articles you've written too!

So is Steemit the only player that you see in the content creation boom for 2018?

How does it work? Mining profits after electricity costs go to investors?

Perhaps there were no fireworks displays because of worries over bad weather? There was that big storm that passed over the north/west of Ireland.

Was that originally real? or just created as a meme? :P

It's needed - those hidden mining scripts were ruining everyones' laptops!

So... Mr McAfee gets his social media hacked after pumping sh1tcoins... how convenient!

Had a quick look for DAV on coinmarketcap - it's not the same as DAV (davor)?

Its a cool name EtherZero. There's a lot of hype at the moment with zero transaction fees (IOTA, Raiblocks) so I can see it doing well... IF the development team is up to the job.

The network effect should start to grow it exponentially. As soon as we have more long term 'evergreen' content showing up in Google, it will help people develop brand recognition and try it out for

With all the money involved, odds are eventually they will find a way to scale. Still, most of my money is with Ethereum.