most interesting, and 't was to be expected, i totally agree a token on top of steem derived from steem using bloated inflation from the pool to create its value wont do much good, but its simple logic that if there is 500 billion to invest in crypto and theres not just BTC but 20000 coins the value will be dispersed and according to statistical history , the real money will go for the gold before it goes for the silver ...
Your take on how steemmonsters just used the bru-ha to position themselves as number one bidbot is somewhat refreshing, i saw it as a GOOD thing but now i do have more perspective and much to my surprise, looking at steemmonsters where most bods never gave any actual roi (maybe they did at the start) i see most of them promise CRAZY amounts now ... im seriously gonna have to check that out, thanks

just did, maybe i'll publish a report on REAL roi in a 100 years when i had enoughdough to try them all (b/c i did once and it turned out most of them were full of it and gave less than you put in by default)
pointed me to another interesting bit i havent followed up lately as it doesnt really matter anymore : the price, at this level, despite everything both steem AND sbd are down a cent again ?

consecutive days of up over down , steemit not selling off, monsters adding 120.000 among others yet still it goes DOWN ?

and thats why i didnt even bother checking thanks for this post, it was most interesting, insightful and informative

o wait (3rd and last edit) .. it just dawns on me : this shows a great opportunity !

looking at how steemit.inc (pretending not to be STEEM) tries to counter inflation with all kinds of laps and patches and the actual moneymakers adapt on the fly faster than you can say hardfork ...

the original idea of saint satoshi was to have NO inflation after 21 million, that was like part of the core of the original idea, steem took that part to another dimension and replaced it with hyper-inflation. It's been my conviction for a while the solution lies not in patching but in capping it. Now if no one can find a way to do that because they're rusted shut in their thou shalt good content and its not for the money but it says so on the sign-up page ways leading to all kinds of negative energy and enmity and people thinking censorship is actually a GOOD thing and you can define and measure the good in content as a single entity or provide some formula that tells you what a good post is ...
why not just cap it and let the bots solve the issue lol

HARD CORE ....
they seem to be creative when it comes to money