RE: Why whales are needed - and a proposal to insure the massive success of steemit, ie Subtractive Upvoting Gradient

[sigmajin]

Id expect most of the current whales got to be whales by mining, and my (admittedly poor) understanding is that you need many miners to be able to run mining all the time, because your miners can't mine while theyre in line to have their pow accepted by a witness.