I'm not a fan of allocating funds that are not my own ;-)
I would rather opt for them to being "selfish" in a way as they are doing it now. Driving steem core (blockchain) development, and other R&D projects, thanks to which we have upcoming HF20, communities, appbase, various performance improvements, onboarding users (funding accounts), helping various projects grow (busy, dtube), etc. etc.
At some point we (the community) will outgrow their stake.
Question is, are we capable of doing great things or waiting for others?
PS
Do you know how much is for onboarding 5,000,000 users?
$10,000,000 in liquid steem and $290,000,000 in at last 30-day SP delegation.
I don't think anyone is arguing against more funding and support for core blockchain development and other items in the development pipeline and hopefully HF20 will help alleviate the onboarding costs because what we have now is not a scalable solution, as you've shown.
I think what @rok-sivante is proposing here is something that's been on a lot of people's minds in the Steem community recently - especially since the "aggrandizement" incident - and I'm happy to see proposals like this being presented in a clear and well-thought-out manner. Even if it doesn't end up getting implemented it's good to bring attention to the subject and let the powers that be know what the community is thinking.
Very informative post! upvoted!
You mentioned a lot of 2017 (and maybe some 2016) roadmaps items in that list of upcoming things, Gandalf, so what makes you think they will finally appear this year when ("more info about smts here") is the only thing we ever hear uttured anymore by stinc, and the rest of the community like chain and busy and zappl cant seem to get massive adoption away from the swamp here?
I'm a witness, I witness things ;-)
Serious now: I pay attention to what's going on the platform including various projects (core, 3rd party). True, some of those features / projects that were on the roadmap was expected to be live earlier, but as always: better safe than sorry.
(Yes, I'm one of those crazy people that haven't powered down even to cover my expenses yet)
I know you are and do and have and did :) I'm a witness too, I think you knew this. :) Anyhoo... I too remain optimistic, but I am powering down a little bit for the next couple weeks, because I'm travelling to 5 countries and circumnavigating the world to meet steemitizens, and need a bit of emergency funds in my zipper belt for that trip :)
I give the rest away via @YouAreHOPE Foundation or power it up or pay the bills, I am trying to hodl and remain optimistic of course, or I wouldn't build charities and streaming networks and communities here, eh? But I am also trying to integrate steem as a basic part of my daily financial life in anticipation of the day when I can solely rely on it and leave behind my 35 year tech career finally. (Im a VP of Tech in a SaaS company off-steem)
One day at a time man.
That's a good reason for powering down a little. :-)
Just a little, just for a minute, just to see how it feels. Shhhh, let it happen. I won't go full auto, I am mostly delegated to my projects anyway.
mr.@sircork please follow and upvote me okays
You are absolutely right , o surport your comment
I agree