hopefully SMT would bring more decentralization. one thing i'm worried about is that steemit inc has never embraced decentralization in the first place. they always wanted to be the center piece of literally everything related to steem.

i'm afraid ned doesn't have enough humility in him to be a facilitator rather than a dictator.

but if smt does kinda work as they market it, then steem price might go up. otherwise, it would have to rely on the general crypto market as it always did.