I completely agree with you @gigafart. As a long term observer of your blogs, I got a lot about crypto's and steemit as a whole. I do agree if let's say tomorrow, the steemit discards it's reward system and become like facebook, people will move on for sure and steem price would come on ground. But why would anyone use it for p2p cash. Last I checked, the importance would only be given to sunrise not sunsets. No crypto's which are declining, would not be prefreable by anyone especially now we have a lot of crypto's to choose from.
I think steem is only running progressively because of it's reward pool on steemit. Don't you think so?
Take this way, the steemit will be gone.
Personally I hope that day never comes, I love steemit by the way.
Anyways I am a huge fan of yours and respects your opinion.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom @gigafart
RE: The ultimate dream for me would be a Steem blockchain that is so big and widely known that Steem tokens would be an acceptable form of currency (all the time).