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RE: Dear Witnesses and Stakeholders... The Value is the Community!
People posting is the primary mechanism that markets Steem. When you run a search with the SE of your choice you will sometimes find Steem posts amongst the choices, at least I do. More mechanisms to draw eyeballs is good. Games are a good way, probably better than ads.
One way I thought of was through archival services, for folks using facial recognition tech, archiving info that is likely to be purged from the wider net, and etc. The blockchain is very good at that.
Anything that needs to query a reliable record of any piece of data is a candidate to take advantage of the properties of the steem blockchain. We could even run a payment procesing service with a fiat backed asset at a fraction of the cost of visa (regulations aside).
Regulations, sadly, aren't aside, they're right in the middle of the way of folks speaking freely and doing honest business. IANAL, so am not well informed regarding regulations affecting payment processors, nor escrow services. Jurisdiction is definitely an issue, and getting worse as time goes on.
Julian Assange is being charged for breaking US law, despite not being a US citizen, nor breaking any US laws on US soil. It seems that the US is asserting that it's jurisdiction extends to the entire world. This seems to be the reason that some blockchains are attempting to put servers in orbit, so that no jurisdiction extends to them. However, neither would any legal protection I am aware of, so criminal actions taken against them would not be able to be prosecuted, not even in corrupt American or British courts. It is extremely important to note that Julian Assange has been so tortured in British custody that he can not even speak coherently to his legal representation anymore.
It is a terrible threat to every free person in the world, that savage and brutal fiends claim jurisidiction over the entire world, and apparently use that claim to torture victims criminally.
Regulations can be crimes against humanity, and this may impact Steem's ability to conduct business.