I have to be honest with you, as libertarian I do believe self interest to be a virtue.

That seems understandable to me, in the sense that we have all been attracted to STEEM for many reasons.

Mine was primarily the technology. An Experiment as Dan Larimer called it. It has been found to have a serious weakness. To have another kick at the can and bring along the old baggage of economics seems not to be driven as a scientific experiment. Instead of offering a true egalitarian start up to the community that has come together over the last 4 years this development has as its primary focus capitalistic profit as a guiding star.

Getting currency out of tokens is difficult.

... then they need to implement a protocol in such a way that will benefit them.

That does not sound like the philosophy of Open Source Programmers to me. Maybe your point is in terms of a Libertarian?

Decentralization may make demands on our concepts of property.

A reboot is done when using software to reset the data not to carry it forward normally. From my experience anyway...