RE: Hard Fork 21: A Case For the 50/50 Curation Reward Model

I do not know what to expect with this hardfork, we all want steem to increase its value, and today with the sidechains we have the possibility to perform backtests and see how the token economy behaves. I think any change in steem should be tested on sidechains before it is implemented.

The way it looks at steem publishing platforms seems to be the kind of creator written platform for content for other content creators, not for consumers. And every content platform must foster the consumption of the content that is created in it. I'm not really worried about the bidbot owners, they are interested stakeholders in the development of this blockchain and the economy that revolves around it as well as all of us.

My biggest concern is the traffic that the front-ends generate for those who consume the content that is created here. This hard-fork can be good or bad, we can not predict the future, but we have how to test the changes and decide for the best. If steem is much more than its content creation front ends, I think devs can create ways for steem to circulate in other ways as well, look at other blockchain projects and develop solutions in which the steem can be served from several ways, like bat for example.