You made some great points I lean towards agreement to. We definitely need SMT, for sure!! Sooner than later. We need to loose the game theory of Dan Larimer, as indeed, it doesnt work in reality, as we’ve seen the last four yrs. I also think the layer 1 shall support growth of the eco system (it kinda does through the proposal system but that system is not working as it should. What I mean, the HIVE reward and power from it shall support abuse fighting teams, shall support community leaders, shall support onboarding more than it does now, shall support curator teams. Essentially it shall support all those group activities that makes HIVE a better service and social eco system. Rewards for content shall go to the second layer, SMTs without a link to HIVE rewards, ie one earns eg LEO but no HIVE anymore. Sure, we may continue (well we have to) with HIVE rewards since we dont have SMTs and as you pointed out, this shall be build into the core of HIVE.
For the proposal system to work, it becomes super important to drive the ‘involvement’ system. Ie those with power and those with great ideas and skills shall be able to connect much much better than they are connecting today. Although maybe not true, but it seems one needs to be part of an inner circle to get attention. We need to build a solution for this. Think in terms of startup accelerator programs where ideas are supported on all business aspects, next to funding and finding revenue models.
We need some (or multiple independent team) driving every business aspect of the entire HIVE ecosystem. We are decentralized but that doesnt means we shall all work in our own island. With the 10s of thousands active users we have in our midst, am 100% sure we can create teams and projects that will become mighty successful. Many don’t take on a project because we feel not to be part of the core of HIVE, we feel being on our own and most importantly, the HIVE chain is out of our hands, has no roadmap, has no clear plan of what we develop and when, hostile takeovers are still possible and so on and so fort.
We need SMT and then we need a hunting team to integrate HIVE into existing community platforms. Along with that we need to have developers available to integrate these community platforms. We need legal teams. We need to try and drive to spend time on something unique instead of creating all sort of same or similar services. We are too small to act fully decentralized. Decentralization shall be our destination, but not necessarily the road towards that shall be fully decentralized, like building out our ecosystem.
Have so much more to say, but leave that for another time. If you like, we can connect on eg Discord or Telegram. I have some ideas that I like to see happening; Its all about the entertainment industry in which I have a lot of connections that could be leveraged. Think of PoS at events. Think of loyalty point systems instead of volatile currencies. Think of collaboration with services like Viberate. And what about working together with Tomorrowland? ID&T? Awakenings? Time Warp? All big world brands in the electronic music entertainment industry. Many of them I can reach through a simple whatsapp.