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We don't need the company to keep the blockchain running, and we could find another way to support developers. But in the comments, Ned said the infrastructure cost for steemit.com and the API server that helps other apps read and write to the blockchain is almost $2,000,000 per year.

Yes

later edit: that's a very good question, actually

You may see a few hard-forks... I am pretty sure steem monsters runs their own nodes, has the capabilities of forking and a userbase to follow.

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