What the biggest shareholders do with their stake impacts the whole eco-system profoundly. Do they use their stake to support minnows, on-board new users, deploy curation groups and keep developing the user-interfaces to make things simple and unlock the potential of the platform?

I was not overly happy with Steemit and the group of OG's. I also have a lot of doubts about the situation now. But I think the competition from Hive will naturally enforce the current leadership and large stakeholders to act in the way that leads to a best possible outcome for Steem. If not, it will eventually become a ghost town.

If Steem wants to survive, it just needs to do better than Hive (or other alternatives that will come up eventually).