Well, I pointed out the reasons I feel most repress appreciation in the price of Steem.
"...there's no evidence to suggest steem will ever sustain above a dollar."
Steem has been above $4 before, and has better cryptocurrency chops than BTC. Those aren't guarantees, but they are evidence.
So, as I understood your proposal to generate income from selling 'potential' premium upgoats to whales, and now you agree that whales aren't going to be posting for upgoats, what is this new, unspecified mechanism that will compensate whales for their delegations to the curation teams?
The most likely returns this could generate for whales would be some percentage of the curation rewards.
"...not much of anything gets done on this platform in any 6 month period."
That's unlikely to remain the case, for long. After the Sybil attack purchases the witnesses, the new centralized PTB's will likely be very active changing code.
I hope you're right about the changes. I'm not really down with the details in that regard to be honest, just working on my own experience and what witnesses have told me privately etc.
$4 lasted a few days, im not sure if thats evidence or just somebody pumping and dumping. Right now it's kinda crazy though, sbd hit 2 dollars =/
Anywho I explained int he other comment about how whales would get a return so I'll cut this one off to prevent going back and forth between comments!