Instinctively, I understood pretty early that this platform would never provide enough reward to be an inviting place for serious authors, whether the reward came in the form of money or readership. But the blockchain is solid, and in the case of a closed reward loop like Steemhouse is working on, we don't need the common reward pool in quite the same way as we would otherwise. Plus, our idea is portable. If things head too far south, we can pack up and go, too. For now we're staying put, though, with pretty low expectations about most aspects of the Steem ecosystem, but some realistic ideas about how to make it work for us. Time will tell. Time will also tell if we continue to draw mainstream attention to the Steem blockchain with the name of our project. We'll just have to see.