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Steem appears to be failing because of a misbalance in currencies producing bidbots and scammy 115% returns on promotion budgets. There are alternative sidechains to consider that did away with the SBD concept and pay everything out as VESTed income, so that people are – in turn – vested into the success of the platform. Incentivization is what rules the internet and any publication platform should be centered around ‘how do we turn content into $’ – and that we need to consider tokenization and blockchain.