So you want Steem to try to be like Bitcoin? Bitcoin will never be mainstream and will never appeal to the people Steem appeals to. Why would you look at Bitcoin as a model of success?

Steem needs to look at other similar platforms and ignore the whole crypto community and all speculators within. Those speculators who don't support Bitshares will not support Steem. They will see just another sh*tcoin and pump and dump it, which will create a temporary spike but then it will be all over, just as it was for all the others.

If the best idea the developers have to build demand is to invite pump and dump crews to Steem then I will say that concerns me a lot. No company or startup would seek to invite those kinds of speculators because they don't have much value, and to reduce the amount that Steem Power gives out will only reduce the long term support even more for Steem.

@ned has some really horrible ideas and I will predict if these ideas are implemented there will be a mass power down and rush to exit result for Steem. And what do you expect when @ned is powering down himself anyway along with many of the others who promote these ideas?