I grew up surrounded by charlatans. Their proliferation only accelerated as I got older. Fortunately, these value-based developments might actually upend the rules and system by which one can be rewarded for deceiving (or stealing from) people.

It should be obvious that your product is what matters; marketing is an extremely inefficient use of resources if you're concerned about real-world solutions. If you're concerned about money, it's a great game.

I don't know enough of the technical details (not an IT guy) but if you're right, Bitshares and Steemit are doing exactly what I would want the tech to do. Or at the very least they're headed in the right direction.

Anyone creating anything in this world should strive towards it being a good creation, not just whether it can sell. Hopefully we'll also see some education initiatives with the coming disruptions that teach people to reason...or maybe that's too much to ask from tech.

Good read, thanks.