You are right that it isn't clear what Andrew Levine is doing lol. If I give him the benefit of the doubt, we could consider his influence in getting steem covered by a few major publications recently like Backchannel... and I know he's working on some kind of blockchain-themed TV series. But yea, IDK.
re: when I wrote this, I wrote it a few days ago. As the post specifies, I'm defining the top 50 based on an October 11th snapshot of the market:
