You mention a very interesting tidbit about the 'Hash power worth 1000$ needed to cause a 51 percent attack'. Now that one almost made me wet my pants............. its a major surprise, at least for me!

I got to understand the (delegated) DPOS after coming to the steem blockchain. Frankly I did not understand it for a while but only with time and a lot of reading and listening I got a bit of a hold of it. People who claim DPOS being centralized probably don't understand what you mentioned - which is that mining pools have already done much worse to POW coins. (Although I understand the need for pools).

EOS has been huge until now. In fact when all is said and done I consider it an alt to look for in the coming year. Thanks for sharing this man! Needed to hear this after all the fudding that's going on with EOS