For just about a month Dan Larimer has been making noise on social media about April stating that the announcement to come was going to change everything. Without a doubt this announcement is pretty big for EOS, but it could just be the very beginning of something even greater.

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Tasting Fast

Of course this is complete speculation from my part, but I happen to have some logic behind my reasoning. Until very recently really, the idea of DPOS was somewhat fringe, meaning that the purists among the crypto community could not simply accept a move away from POS regardless of any evidence that would pop up.

As a matter of fact, I would go as far as to say that there's still a chunk of the crypto community who can't get over the rise of POS, so to them DPOS just sounds like the ramblings of people who deserve to be institutionalized.

But then, because more and more users have gravitated to DPOS blockchains, even the most stubborn hard headed purists have to take a look under the hood. It's precisely then, when they actually do some research where they find themselves witnessing a possibility for scalability and a path to mass adoption.

Shift in the wind?

I sincerely hope this is the case, but know that I'm very biased on this matter. I mean, how many times have proponents of DPOS been screaming to the ether, that this technology can actually work, that the true way of valuing blockchains should not be exclusively its marketcap which of course can be fluffed and manipulated, but the user base and activity they have.

There's been multiple campaigns at this point pitching STEEM to coinbase, and I think that this particular event, if ever so slightly, probably says that they've not been completely deaf about it. That being said, this whole thing is starting with EOS, but there's no reason why in the near future it cannot include bitshares and our undervalued STEEM too.