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still need specialised devs and deep pockets. i've none of that

This is called entrepreneurship: how without resources and money build something.

Plus if it gets built and works, Steem devs can just copy and paste the code. The core is more mature, hence more favourable than any forks. Just not a big fan of forked economies

Plus if it gets built and works, Steem devs can just copy and paste the code

This is what we want!?

Anyways, there will be a new network with the right economics (rewarding talent, with a smart form of taxation and paying goddamn something back to investors) and probably this will lead to a new crypto boom. That's how I see the future.

To compete with the existent model we need to offer at least something as good.