Appics had no real answers for my questions the first time I bothered to read their whitepaper and I saw them shilling, so I can only assume the latter. Oh, and I looked into that Chinese social media thing on EOS you were talking about in another post, and I'm not too sure how hyped anyone should be about it considering they're only giving 5 per year compared to the 75 stack they're giving themselves at the start for themselves and their buddies, that's 15 or so years for the non-team equity to be matched by everyone else, lol. Might still beat steem's timeline though rofl.