My opinion on Steem vs Steem 2.0 is that time is running out for Steem original to maintain dominance. In fact I see certain design decisions which could make it easier for a competitor to compete such as the fact that all the account data is public. Quite easy to snapshot the Steem blockchain and create a Steem 2.0 with all the exact same token distributions. Quite easy even for Tauchain or any other project to snapshot the Steem blockchain and sharedrop a token to compete with Steem. The lack of privacy also provides an opportunity for a competitive advantage for any competitor which adds privacy.
I am not yet convinced of EOS. EOS has to compete with Tezos, Cardano, and others. I do not hold EOS at this point in time.
Maybe Steem should think of cooperating with Enigma hehe. It does indeed feel like time is running out a bit. I wonder, if SMTwould have been launched by the beginning of the year, how things would look like today. Another thing I wonder is how long the crypto market will move as a whole, as opposed to projects moving based on their progress and adoption. I guess time will tell.
I suggested that but it was not well received unfortunately. I don't think Steem will ever adopt privacy features due to political objectives of Steemit.inc but I do think witnesses could be convinced someday perhaps.
I more importantly is whether or not Tauchain which seeks to build a decentralized social network makes the decision to have private computations or not. It's a very critical decision which will have to be made for any social network but particularly for Tauchain. I think Steem already made their decision and has to live with the open network and all the problems from that choice.
I think there can always be a compromise of some sort. Me myself I would not mind advertisement on Steemit (some, not too much). It would help to inject capital and raise Steem and thus benefit everyone holding Steem tokens. But I guess advertisement is even a bigger no no for Steemit inc.
As someone who’s primary investment in Steem, I think that’d be great.
I’ve had many concerns regarding Steemit’s weaknesses, and accompanying confusion about how I’d prefer to allocate my investment, when the time comes for Steem 2.0 - unsure of whether to move funds over, how much, etc.
That’d be pretty awesome to be airdropped an amount of tokens proportional to my Steem holdings, and thus have a beginning stake in others, should they be the ones to solve the challenges and win out.
Quite a brilliant idea.