It is always interesting to me to read what the people near the top of the Steemit "food chain" have to say about the future.

I'm still here, sticking to the business of content creation and curation in the hope that — as you suggest — the future will reward those who stuck it out. Even in the short time since HF.20, I've already noticed far fewer "nice post" type comments, and I take that to be a good sign. Earlier today I even ran across a post with 90+ comments, none of which were spam.

Although I'm not a gamer, I'm excited and hopeful about the impact Steemmonsters could have on Steem; it's one of the few things I've seen that bridges Steem and "the outer world" and perhaps a test to see how something that isn't "Steemit, the social site" will far at bringing new people into our ecosystem.

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