You know, I've been building a phenomenal idea to utilise the Steem chain in a world-changing way, and many people are very excited about it (I don't want to give it away on-chain), and I have been inches away from making the proposal to the wealthy investors I work under of which this would be very relevant to their cause and business. I genuinely suspected millions of CNY could flow in this way.
I've been inches away numerous times for many weeks now. But... I can't. My idea is super exciting, putting it on a blockchain? super exciting. Putting it on the steem blockchain, where people bicker and monopolize and collude and centralize? and threaten and lie and cheat and steal, with the reputation being 'steemit.com is a place to get paid to spam'?
My idea would work totally fine the way things are, but what can I tell a multi-million investment?
'Technically it would be great, but there's a bunch of people planning on forking the blockchain which threatens the value and purpose of the entire concept. Oh, also, the CEO is totally incompetant and malicious. Oh, and nobody actually agrees on what the actual purpose of the blockchain is right now. And nobody actually cares about the content. Oh wait, and large delegated projects are getting their delegations removed including my own SteemSTEM, and the company in control is removing their investment overall. BUT, you should still invest millions because it might be worth a couple of thousand in a month or two.'
It's such an embarassing shame, I just want this project to Go. Even if all of this got ironed out instantly right now, the history of cacophony that will pull up with even the most casual google search into Steem will probably get me fired for trying to burn so much money that could otherwise have been spent on ivory backscratchers.
Not sure why I'm typing this here. Just venting.