Hi @fucho80,

Thank you very much for this nice article. I believe that the change of retribution to 50/50 will in the long term benefit everyone. The curators will have much better returns and therefore they will invest more into the platform.

This should lead to higher steem prices. The same way authors might write more and get better rewards in terms of dollars. There are more page views and Steemit inc earns more with their ad banners and thus they don't have to sell so many steem to pay their employees.

Well I don't know whether HF 21 will be enough to bring this about but I believe it goes into the correct direction.

Communities

I totally agree with you that communities are the future of this platform. If you put a lot of people together and they curate each other regularly, this helps the community as a whole.

To compete with bots we should use bots ourselves and give automatic upvotes to the people in our community. Like that we can time the votes for better curation rewards and everybody wins.

Best regards,

Achim