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RE: With Steem-Engine Do We Still Need SMT?
Steem Engine has done some interesting work, but it's happening on third-party servers without a consensus protocol. SMT's will happen at protocol level.
The difference here is... a protocol level solution does not depend on a single entity to keep it running. While Steem Engine has configured so that additional nodes can easily see what is happening, and anyone can witness activity, only SE can validate activity.
Until SE transitions to a fully decentralized consensus protocol (any node can validate SE activity), we still need SMTs.
Thanks a lot @josephsavage for your detailed explanation, I was just thinking now can't the management of the Steem-Engine guys work together so that SMT happens like right now. I mean things are changing so fast on the blockchain level and I am thinking by the time we finally get SMT if we do get it, people might have moved along. businesses that would have loved to use it might have taken other alternatives. Cheers.
Protocol level development is completely different than app-level development. None of the code-base for Steem-Engine is even in the same programming language as the code-base for Steem protocol layer.
Ahhh! I guess we'll continue to wait. Thanks for the enlightenment. You are the man.