The name is still secret, it won't be Steem 2.0.  A better distribution will attract more investors = more rewards so that would be a worthy difference.  Don't underestimate the 800K people already on Steem, that is a big step ahead.  My last post talked a bit about this with accent on SMT's because that is the absolute future of Steem, it will all depend on whether this will be pulled off on time.

> whales could just give themselves self-upvote or cross upvotes, and cash in all the rewards to exchanges.

COULD?!? 
They are already doing it. There are a lot of abuses on this platform.
And there is not much of rewarding good content.
But if you are one of the 'club' members, you get whale upvotes no matter what you write.
There are cases, where someone gets LOTS of delegated steem power just to use it mainly for self voting. 

Because of this kind of things, I think Dan's version 2.0 will be better and fairer. 
Yes, I hope that Steemit whales, the bad ones, the exploiters do stay here.
And they will probably not have incentive to move on EOS 2.0 version since Dan will put some checks and balances in place to prevent some of the mess up stuff that it is going on here.

The main difference won't be financial, but a different mentality among the whales and witnesses - hopefully.

In regard to the witnesses, keep in mind that there are [122 current active witnesses.](https://steemian.info/witnesses) If the top 20 suddenly left, there would be more than enough to make up the slack. In fact, there are plenty of witnesses who would be more than happy to assume the top positions, especially considering there are inactive witnesses in the top 50. 

It's also worth considering that just because someone goes inactive, they don't lose their status as a witness unless other users remove the votes. They could theoretically step away and come back, which is an issue several other communities and witnesses are trying to address. 

Witnesses like @sircork, @enginewitty, @jrswab, @krnel, @ura-soul, and @guiltyparties are doing great work, so I encourage you to check them out. They're all outside the top 20, but I think it would be great for the platform if we could elevate them that highly. 

Thanks for your thoughts. It will be interesting moving forward to see what happens with EOS.

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I heard the rumor there will certainly be like steemit platform on EOS. And there are already whales, dolphins or minnows on EOS too, so why would we expect steem whales to move on EOS, some may have already invested there too to become whale.

Without bad actor whales like BernieSanders EOS will have a big advantage. Since Dan has already had run ins with Bernie, hopefully he will redesign the system to disallow toxic behavior by whales.

Great post bud, I don't think it's a real concern at the moment, but it's a scary thought.

Do both. Crosspost on Steem and future EOS platform.

Things are getting interesting with the recent updates though... I'll keep an eye into this Steemit 2.0

Great post.

Im trying slowly to build my reach on social media and I believe that if new platform will exist then most influencers and content creators will be still active on both platforms. I dont think steemit would die for that reason. Steemit has many other issues that need to be addressed.

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