RE: What Is @dan Really After? Steemit-KIller Coming?
Hey, @taskmaster4450.
I read through the comments to see if someone else had said what I'm going to and didn't see it. So, if I missed it, I apologize for bringing it up twice.
It could very well be that Dan has some kind of Steemit Killer, intended to be a better social media dApp then Steemit is. However, in my mind, if that were just the case, he'd be better served to keep it completely under the radar rather than using opportunities to talk about it.
What talking about it serves, though, is to get him better coverage for whatever it he's got planned. Dan is merely using the bad blood that is supposed to be there to get his newest creations press. It's working, especially among us. If he does have a Steemit killer, he will also need a community to use it, and he figures he can pick some people off of STEEM.
If you go and look at Dan's wallet right now (something that is subject to change obviously), he still has quite a bit of SP left. Meanwhile, Ned's has been reduced quite a bit. I don't think that means Ned's abandoning anything (how would I know either way?), but it doesn't seem like Dan has completely abandoned STEEM either. Not at this point.
I guess the coming weeks will tell, but if Dan is the person I think he is, he's not out to kill STEEM, he's out to make all blockchains better, which may mean forcing the competition to follow his lead, where he was never really going to get STEEM to go where he wanted it to while he was here and dependent on Ned and company.
one point that also jumped out to me while reading this:
the "SteemIT"-killer.
Not Steem.
Thus, who knows... could potentially be a new far-superior UI still operating on the Steem blockchain...
oh, the suspense!
Hey, @rok-sivante
Very true. The quarrel, if any still exists, doesn't seem to be with STEEM itself, but with Steemit (and there's plenty here that share in that sentiment).
re: on the STEEM blockchain
Now, wouldn't that be a twist. Everyone thinking it would be on EOS, and then boom! It's on STEEM. :) Or even a combination of STEEM and EOS to earn either or both. Since we're talking hypotheticals. Maybe I should look forward to the launch more. :)
I’d imagine the ideal to be something utilizing a bridge between the two - Steem for its existing ecosystem, and EOS for its smart contract capabilities.
Given BEOS just being launched to bridge Bitshares and EOS, it might be reasonable to expect something similar with/for Steem...
Personally, I think this makes the most sense. I don’t think he wants to smother anything, but rather use hype as a way to get attention. Great point that Dan has not pulled all his SP as well!
Hey, @alchemage.
I'm glad it does make sense to more than just me. :)
I suppose Dan could be more petty than I think he is, and all of this could be purely out of spite, or maybe he's learned some lessons about marketing, while he can use controversy and/or acrimony to his benefit.
It also sounds like he's spending way too much in DC, though. I don't normally think of that as a good thing. :)