Obligatory new dolphin post.

15 Months on Steemit.

What can I say. It's been an interesting and emotional journey. Everything is under pressure at the moment and the markets are killing us. With that said there is no better time to invest in a project. I know that everything seems bleak right now but i was actually pleasantly surprised by the reaction i have seen over the past week. People are realizing that they had been too comfortable until now. Too reliant on a governing body to lead the way and too expectant on the market to provide all of the value to the blockchain. We swiftly found out that is not going to be the case going forward.

What was even swifter than that was the outpouring of ideas and and solutions to the problems we are facing right now. That can only be a positive going forward that we are cutting back and tightening the processes need to move forward. When times were good and prices were soaring everybody took the focus off improving the blockchain and were all chasing the money instead. The reality of the situation is that all of this is still in the development stage and everything happening right now is only laying a foundation for future progress to build upon.

Ask Ned.

I can see that we all have a vision for the future of STEEM and ned's communication recently has brought this out to the fore. For his latest livestream I even put my own two cents into the bowl.

It's great to see that you are putting realistic and achievable plans in place and not only that but to be fair you're trying to show more of what is happening which we all appreciate. So thanks for that.

Obviously you have let go a lot of staff which will require a re organization of people and planning which makes perfect sense in the current environment but i hope that you will consider the fact that you a have a community of thousands willing and able to pick up some of the slack from this and steem inc doesn't have to go it alone. It's to all of our benefit that the blockchain is successful and there is an enormity of talent and brain power at your disposal to further this goal.

You have said that unfortunately you took on too broad a scope and that stretched steem inc further than it could go in the current market. In my opinion the solution to a lot of this are the apps currently developing and the apps yet to come. It's my belief that the priority for steem inc should be providing the best possible platform for these apps to develop and start earning external money. Once this is happening they will be able to cover a lot of the costs of running the blockchain through either charges or beneficiary posting on the chain. There are millions to be made from running successful apps so a blockchain running thousands of these should more than be able to cover the costs of running the platform that they are operating on.

My question to you is what is your priority going forward and how can we best facilitate the creation of all of these apps in the fastest and easiest way possible.
If you can create a roadmap to this, the apps will be able to create revenue and onboard users without any help from steem inc and allow you to focus on the development of the blockchain which was the original purpose.
If you can set out a road map for this and pinpoint exactly what is need to do it then i have no doubt that there are users here willing to take on some of those tasks and facilitate and speed up the process.

We are all in this together so i hope that you have seen form a lot of the posts during the week that we want to help and to be part of the process. You might not have the staff but you do have the people so reach out and use that to all of our advantage. You have been more open with the community and we can see how much will there is among it's users to improve the system and to bring it forward. I hope you won't let that go to waste.

That is what I would like to see next and that is why I have powered up to dolphin status. This is only the beginning and we will emerge from this rough patch stronger and tighter than than ever before. It has been a valuable lesson in preparation and planning, one which I hope that everybody involved has learned from.

Here for the long haul.

While technically this is a financial investment for me, in reality it's an investment in the community involved in the blockchain. Everything that i have seen recently has only convinced me even more how strong the core community is on the blockchain and the wealth of talent that we have here.

I will be here until we either breakthrough to mass adoption and change how people use the internet or until we burn the whole place down taking everybody and everything with us. Either way it will be entertaining and give us all something to post about.

I just want to say thank you to everybody who has been following, voting and commenting on my account since joining. I can honestly say that i have enjoyed all of the time spend on here and learned so much in my time here. I only hope that we can keep growing and bring more people into the STEEM eco-system.