All I'd say is, witnessing is a political position, and you have to campaign diligently to get higher up the ranks
Creating a new account requires 0.1 steem and 10 delgated SP. So whales with, for example, 1million steem can create 100 thousand accounts that vote for themselves (or a proxy account). Am I misunderstanding something?
RE: How should Steemit Inc decentralize their stake?