If Steemit Inc do not care about user retention, onboarding or developing the Steemit interface - where do you think their revenue will be coming from?

There is little point expanding and developing the road unless the government is footing the bill or users are paying a toll.

Somewhere along the line the app and blockchain developers are going to need to introduce external revenue streams from advertisers etc. SMTs and side chains are good - but we can't print ourselves into prosperity.

Steem (the decentrised blockchain) has a lot of potential - the question remains how developers, including Steemit.Inc can generate income from it outside of the reward pool - though Steem Monsters is giving it a good crack.

SirKnight.