I generally avoid this side of the blockchain. I have wondered about where the platform is going, especially after reading @malicered's [post](https://steemit.com/steemit/@malicered/the-state-of-steemit-my-thoughts-about-the-present-and-future-of-steemit) a while back.

It really got me thinking and I wrote about it. Basically, if everything stays the same for the foreseeable future, I imagined Steemit being a mining platform with the biggest stakeholders taking in the shares and "contents" will only be "mining nodes" to be voted on.

Of course, when that happens, the platform probably has no value even with major burn operations going on in the background.