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There was no Hive (or Steem) DAO when HBD (SBD) was created. The Steem white paper explains why SBD was created, as does the Steemit evil plan post.

https://peakd.com/steem/@dan/steemit-s-evil-plan-for-cryptocurrency-world-domination

TLDR: Steemit was supposed to become a marketplace with social media. The marketplace aspect of the site never really developed in reality.

Damn! I miss that Dan. Very much sounds like @edicted.

Can the marketplace really be the missing piece of this awesome tech?

Thanks for linking that post