What encourages me the most is that a strong community base has been created with the value and ecosystem in mind and having the financial reward side as a secondary goal in the short term. This will alleviate the pressure of value extracting projects coming and going which is helping distribution of SP to a wider and stronger base.
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It indeed does. But there need to be an extra incentive for people to buy steem, besides the curation power it does give you. Things like those will put steem in a better daylight, which is maybe something we need.