@dob from Livepeer here. I don't think that was @dan in the forum. We haven't met before, but we've certainly been inspired by Dan's DPOS design and implementation, and have a lot to learn from Steem and

I think that there is plenty of opportunity for companies to build value on top of Dapps in a way which takes advantage of network effects or transactional roles within the Dapp ecosystem. In the case

I believe I've found at least one answer to my own question.... From the Steem Whitepaper, it looks like solely relying on elected witnesses to produce blocks would open the blockchain up to censorship.

With regards to 1, definitely. I could see them making a multi-hundred thousand dollar investment in Steem Power instead of investing in as much community management and recruitment required when trying

Do you think it's apples to apples comparing Bitcoin transfer of value transactions to Steemit transactions which include upvotes, replies, edits, etc? On Steemle they have a chart called "Transfers

Thank you. This makes sense. I assume Steemit Inc is using Facebook/Reddit auth as a defense against countless spam attacks, and they're just weighing the presumed value a new user will add to the network

Thanks. I agree with you that the incentives will cause convergence towards quality curation along some baseline. I just wonder if the financial incentive means that said baseline is equivalent to a content

Thanks, good to be here. It looks like a lot of the comments on my first post are from bots. Is there a way to hide or downvote them? I don't see the button to do so.

I think the fact that a new user will be required to acquire ETH before executing a transaction (making a post, upvoting a comment, etc) on Akasha, is a huge barrier to entry. It could serve as the default