For example, we are about to announce another spinoff. It is fully operational and has been in beta testing for most of the past year. You can use it to send international payments to 180 countries using 40+ digital currencies. You can send anything from Bitcoin to Steem via SWIFT or SEPA and transfer funds to your local bank account 9x faster than with your current bank. You can also send funds to yourself or to anyone with a Bank Card, Prepaid Debit Card, or Debit Card, anywhere in the world! We can load any Debit Card you have that has a MasterCard® logo using 40+ digital currencies.

So a fork of BTS? Why not just stick with BTS instead of competing against it?

Is the initial distribution method going to be fair?

Are you going to honour the 'social contract' of graphene or do a sharedrop of any kind? I feel steem should have done this, voting power would have been more balanced/distributed.

RE: Merger controversey - I believe it was only controversial because it was forced through without the network voting on the matter (not very democratic considering the marketing of DPOS). It's good that this vesting period is finally over though, onwards!