Thanks for the feedback. We're not focusing on fiat monetization as much as focusing on ensuring that the organization can survive while continuing to put out free and open software. Blockchain developers ain't cheap yaknow ;)
I say get in where you fit in. Ideals don't pay the bills.
Hey, that rhymes....sort of.
Can we get updates on MIRA soon, and some decent tutorials on how to set up a witness / node using MIRA, RocksDB and all those wonderful pieces of engineering that have been going on, so that, as a community, more nodes and decentralisation can flourish, thereby reducing your costs on nodes? :)
Survival mode is never a good place to be, I totally get it. But blockchains are supposed to be cheap ya know, for the people by the people and all that..
I love steem, I love and appreciate steemit, more than letters on the screen can express. But I feel a lack of focus.. and maybe that's because of the whole Ned and Dan drama, maybe Dan was the real visionary and Ned was a marketing guy, I don't know, most of that history is long before me, and it really doesn't matter. What matters is now and the future.. the blockchain doesn't need steem inc, steem inc needs the blockchain. If costs are overloading steem inc, shut down some nodes and ipfs shit on the aws side of things, and offload it to the greater community, sure, it'll suck for some days or weeks, but the community will figure it out. We need a "RIP steemit inc, long live steemit inc!!" moment....
Anyways, I'm ranting... I'll leave it at that for now. But please, don't take any of what I'm saying as an attack on steemit. Just another perspective from my stream of consciousness. Namaste.
Another way to look at it is that putting more fiat into the hands of people who are likely to put it back into the blockchain is never a bad thing. For what it's worth, I would be more in favor of supporting those sponsers to swnd a message to the world that this blockchain deserves attention and investments.