@titusfrost the largest holder of steem has cashed out around 25million STEEM recently.
There could be an opportunity in th future for the current witness nodes to lose consensus and the controlling stake so it could be run by the community again (as opposed to Tron-inserted Chicom controllers).
Still, it's great to see you around on #HIVE, you were my original inspiration in joining steemit all those years ago.
And I do believe you are right with this:
The Hive Platform will over time continue to grow and develop a larger user base and bring in creators.
Glad that you signed up from Titus here! I had a similar experience with another content creator that has since stopped posting but he attracted me over to the platform when it was Steem!