The white paper changed but the original one did not mention anything about any commitments from steemit regarding their stake. There might be some comments from Dan or Ned about this, but nevertheless I don't think that we disagree about what is widely perceived as mismanagement of their stake when it comes to development of the ecosystem.

Steemit might not see things the same way, in any case at the current rate they will power down in about 2 years (last time I checked). At that point (or even before that) the rest of the stake holders will need to step up. If you ask me that is a good thing, we don't need a central point of failure when it comes to development or growth of the network.

We all know that steemit doesn't have a good track record when it comes to delivering on their own roadmaps. Lately it appears that they are getting their act together but it's better if we just start to proceed as if they are no longer relevant. If they contribute...great, if not we need to take matters in our own hands.