Dan’s rejection removes all hope of global Steem adoption.

I for one still believe that Steem will make it big a year or two from now.

From what I've seen and read on Hive account@steemitblog updates, right now their focus is mostly on improving Steem, i.e scalability, flexibility, overall performance, preventing things from being gamed, etc.. before marketing it on a global level.

Once they are finished by this and is ready to welcome millions of people to the Steem blockchain with no problems and with ease, then I "think" they will start to be more active in marketing Steem

I hope you will stay and still have high hopes for Steem before all this happened like we all do