Some months ago I had a brief conversation off chain with Hive account@ned, in which I detailed some of my concerns, including my view that stake-weighting was not something that could be fixed, but had to be foregone. He told me he'd address my concerns prior to the release of SMTs.

Months passed, and I gave up, reckoning that he'd merely made a politic answer to get rid of me, as so many witnesses and phat whales have.

Last month he spoke in Korea, and detailed how and why stake-weighting is a problem, and what he was doing about it. I gladly eat my discouraged words, and feel he has honored his commitment to me to address the issues I brought up privately, despite that no further pressure from me, even from me!, was brought to bear on him, and you know as well as I do the ferocious pressure that is bearing on him to maintain the financial rapine that stake-weighting enables by those whose financial support is critical to Steemit, and he himself.

I reckon he has earned my patience, and shown far more gumption and dedication to a vision of Steemit as social media, rather than cryptomining app, than I could have imagined.

Srsly, I'm quite impressed with his remarks in Korea, and his sincerity, humility, and dedication to Steemit.