My sentiment is more along the lines that I don't know what effect the SMT and RockDB projects will have on STEEM and SteemIt.com.
The projects might enhance existing products. It might undermine existing projects.
SMT might be the thing that attracts alliances with coinbase. The way Steem Inc did the announcement threw SteemIt.com into an uncomfortable limbo state for the holidays.
I agree, everything's in flux right now, which sucks at this time when we could be trying to get on coinbase.
On the other hand, I think the upcoming hard fork involved in it is a great chance to show improvement from HF20, as long as we actually manage testing, and block the fork if it's gonna break steem again, as witnesses. Proving a good testing process for hard forks with large changes in them will be a big plus. Could attract more investors, alliances like you said, developers, etc. We'll just have to see how it goes once they release the code.
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hi @yintercept, @petertag
I really love how responsive you are. Indeed steemit needs more people like you and I :)
I still believe that it's best to introduce SMT when market conditions are better. When trust towards crypto is recovered. When media would like to talk about it.
Right now it would not help much. Right now it would be wasted opportunity.
Yours
Piotr