On November 14th 2020 the remaining stake is at ~75 million steem tokens on chain in Steemit accounts and potentially more sitting in exchanges

Some awesome time travelling there mate :)

A well considered post and I'm thankful you share your views so openly.

It will be interesting to sit back and see what happens. I've had time to think about all this, and the possibilities and directions this could all go in are plenty.

I'll go where the community goes. :)

I think a bit more in the DAO for creators (as opposed to developers) that make Steem exclusive content on the regular (sort of a social contract) would be another use of the DAO.

We could have a DAO for development, and a DAO for content. People nominate content that can be rewarded from that DAO for creators, then some sort of oracle that says 1 account = 1 vote allows the community decide on the most willing project.

There's a lot of prosperity and value in the platform itself, but content creators continue to get tiny rewards in contrast to the posts that are about the chain itself, written by witnesses. I know that its important to surface major updates and existential discussion to the top of the chain, but we need more content on steem that isn't about steem, and we need that content to be more heavilly rewarded.

I get that this is a troubling, exciting, and uncertain time at the present, but those that just want to create, share, and discuss things that aren't steem are not incentivised as heavilly as those that do.

That needs to change - I don't go to reddit to see posts about reddit. I go to reddit to see content and discussions on things I'm interested in.