This is exactly why we have already released the testnet and will be testing this hardfork for a minimum of 3 months, far longer than any other Steem hardfork in history. This is also why we have not yet

Not at all. Ethereum is a general purpose protocol; a decentralized computer. Steem is more like a GPU or ASIC miner; it's designed to power web applications with powerful tokens than can be created without

There is a creation fee in SBD.

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Right?

They will not need Steem because the SMT hardfork contains resource credit delegation pools. After the SMT hardfork, RCs can be delegated to anyone with a Steem account. Actually no this probably won't

This is something we're already doing and would like to do more of. This falls on the non-engineering members of the team and the engineers would still be focused on their products. If anyone has any leads,

It's just not configurable. The power down period is 13 weeks just like Steem Power. It could be made configurable in V2

No, only STEEM is changed through hardfork. Once an SMT is launched its tokenomics cannot be changed. If you wanted to alter the tokenomics of an SMT you would launch a new SMT and airdrop the new token

There will be a 13 week power down.

We might have some ideas for ways that it would make it EVEN easier for non-devs to create a token. Maybe ;) Watch our presentation at SteemFest

Yes, Resource Credit delegation pools are in the SMT code currently on testnet :)

These aren't rumors as much as one potential option for the future. It's certainly not going to be part of the SMT hardfork (or at least that is highly unlikely). But as far as whether it is included in

No, RCs have no price

Technically nothing is really changing about STEEM. I think the real answer to your question lies in Resource Credits. I don't think people really appreciate how much Resource Credits fundamentally altered

I totally get why you feel this way, but it's not at all what we mean. Content sharing and rewarding is still going to be a huge part of Steem. But in order to make content rewarding work even better,

We reviewed all of the relevant laws and regulations and are fully compliant

As we stated in the post, we added the e-mails from the SMT mailing list.

It actually isn't for us! @justinw had to do a bit of work, but we use Sendy which has a small one time fee, and then it's just the cost of the server, which is really not much. Yes, if you were to do

I couldn't agree more with this, "We should instead embrace both, which was always the original vision of Steem to begin with." If the message from Steemit seems contrary to this, then we need