Very late reply, but wanted to post.

I like the idea of fees supporting BitShares as a whole. One thing I don’t see you bring up is the refund workers. The refund workers effectively put back BTS that isn’t being used. I believe the refund400k worker is still voted in.

As far as comparing BitShares to other organizations, I also agree about the advertisement needing to be stepped up. I have been pushing different things to Twitter and drawing attention to them. I think some of the marketing efforts have to be done by the community as well.