Awesome! I think that @blocktrades (and many other witness's) deserve our votes/trust.

As for off Blockchain requirements for liquid Steem... Here's an article I read
(it's trending right now) after I wrote my comment to you. It confirms my suspicions as to Justin Sun's under current actions:
https://staging.busy.org/@mindtrap/review-your-witness-votes-now-remove-your-votes-from-the-following-witnesses-who-have-shut-down-their-servers-and-help-steem

It's all about how Justin Sun is buying up our Steem Assets on Bittrex. It's another solid reason we need the community to STOP selling ALL Steem and begin powering up ourselves.

This is all about buy in. If Justin Sun see's the advantage in buying Steem and powering it up for his purposes... Then this Blockchain truly does have real world value and we should all do the same in order to foil his agenda of centralization.

The power truly is in our hands...