All of that is cool.  

More importantly to the blogging community as opposed to the one day would be currency community, can you guys do a 10:1 reserve split now though so that the value of steem isn't in dime range and instead in the dollar range so there is incentive to blog again.

You could have a similar split functionality with curation rewards as well. No reason to not give more ways for Steem clients to extract value from their users in frictionless ways (i.e. ways that do not require the user to pay transaction fees or subscription fees). Of course this mechanism still doesn't provide any way for them to extract value from users who are merely reading content (which still requires paying nearly the same amount for infrastructure to support that read-only access for their users), but at least they could still extract some value from the segment of their user base that are lurkers but still curate.

steem comment addon for wordpress. please.

With the changes likely coming to the inflation rate, how would this kind of adoption affect the daily rewards pool? How would it impact scalability? 

Currently, the rewards are enticing and payouts can be fairly lucrative for good writers/bloggers - with only a few thousand active users.  But what would happen to payouts if Steemit and the various other platforms were to reach one million users over the next several months?  How would the rewards pool look if there were 100,000 active users per week instead of less than 10,000 - price being the same as it is today to keep it simple? (I realize that prices would likely rise if there was rapid, large-scale adoption.) 

My understanding was that one of the reasons for the higher inflation was that it would allow for better scalability. Was that a misunderstanding? Don't get me wrong - I think the proposed changes are a net positive for the currency, I just wanted to know how this can affect the pool.  I would imagine that this would significantly reduce the average possible payout over time as the user base increases, unless there is a near equal rise in Steem price. 

Any clarification is appreciated.

I think it's pretty much all fantastic. I particularly love the idea of splitting rewards across accounts; that should enable all kinds of really cool things.

I like the ideas behind this, especially that of getting more web sites to integrate with the steem blockchain. But deciding what percentages to award to comments vs initial posts and author rewards versus curation rewards for the different types of posts seems like a tough issue to get right the first time. Would these be parameters that would be voted in by the witnesses or hard-coded?

"What If" general concept idea that seems to fit in this conversation... 
Within the context of this system, what if resteemed content actually took the form of a new post. It would be classified within the link sharing content rewards, and would auto split a given % back to the original content author. This would reduce the drawbacks of the current post payout periods by allowing content to remain somewhat evergreen and capable of gaining an additional rewards trickle. At any time a post could go viral and would result in a solid rewards pyramid back to the content author.

Yes, this is what I have tried to say on SteemFest)
Blockchain has the motivation and Authors have the motivation. 
But the Developers who have the main costs don't have. 
With that improvement the situation will change!

I have knonw about Steemd as far as reading Steemit information, or at least thought is what I thought.   Never heard of Busy.org and after a quick look I am not sure what it is going to be.  Are there already other Steemit sites that are like these?

As I understand this direction, the goal is to introduce the Steem economy in other transactions. The most important part that is syndicated is not the content, which can also be created outside of the current web platform, but **the currency and the economical model**.

This creates a strategic challenge.

In this scenario, Steem becomes **more of a currency and less of a community**. 

_But what makes Steem a currency right now is the community on Steemit.com._ 

Without the people writing here, and without the curators, there won't be any market cap, nobody will buy Steem at all. IMHO, a currency exists only as long as the convention behind it exists. If the community around Steem is weakened, the currency will be weakened as well. Right now, Steem can be bought with real money and, at the moment of writing this comment, 1 Steem is worth 0.12 USD. What makes this possible is the current community and economic model (its size and its activity). Without this real economy going on, Steem will be just another loyalty rewards points plugins out there, just another gamification system.

As I see things right now, strategically, the focus should be on building the community here, which will result in strengthening of the currency, and only then attracting other communities by the "gravitational field" created by this real economy. They should _ask us to include them_. If this is already happening and I didn't see it in the article, well, it means it's ok, we're on the right path. But if not, well...

If the community here becomes less valuable, or too diluted, that will in turn affect Steem as the currency and that will spiral down the price until the whole economy collapses.

I'm just writing this here as food for thoughts. Would love your comments and, most of all, would love some real arguments that will contradict the above scenario.

And one more thing: with so many different communities that are using Steem, what's the role of witnesses and how the governance will be enforced? What they will govern, actually?

I'm not saying that this expansion shouldn't be made, as a matter of fact I'm looking forward to it, as I have a few projects involving the transfer of Steem outside Steemit.com. I'm just saying there are many, many, many variables and I wand to understand as many as I can.

Not sure what you're saying.
I have an account on BlogSpot. A few of them actually.
Let's take "greybeard dreaming" for example.  (long neglected).  If I were to start blogging on it (easier than Stemmit for sure) how would I integrate to steemit and retain the advantages I have here?

$ and rep.

As some know we have had an active blog for some time. We have always has issues getting people from our blog into other areas. With these changes would our:

1. blog followers be able to comment without a steemit account?
2. How would this encourage them to create a steemit account?
3. Could new posts be automatically mirrored onto our steemit channel?
 Thank you for working to include bloggers, and this might even help get some very popular bloggers to respond with integration with steemit.

I love these propositions! With the division of payouts it will make a viable business model for app developer or project like Busy, we will less be dependant on donations and will able to grow funding in same time we grow activity on our apps. With this change we can pay signup fee for new users, we can create a referral system, it will give us much more possibilities.

Thanks for the work that you all do.
Comments are what make this place a community, please don't diminish their importance by devaluing them,...

I actually thought by having [github issue #325](https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/325) we sort of started thinking about exact same structure of payouts. I might be wrong but I support this because each new or starting projects on top of Steem, one way or another having issue with project development funding and sustainable revenue model around it, beside steemit. There are some other ways to have revenue model for **eSteem** project for example that I have been thinking for a while now but they are far from being ready and userbase doesn't really support it at this stage. Embedded comments are really another service we can explore by building plugins which I think is great idea for a project.

I help to moderate and run a popular finance forum.  We have been thinking about creating our own blockchain to do the same thing as here, only with content focused mainly on macroeconomics and energy trading.  Being able to bypass creating and establishing our own currency and hooking into steem blockchain for a relatively low price would be amazing for us.  I definitely like where this is headed. Thanks -Heidi

It's good to see steemit aiming to embrace a broader net here. Integrating with external audience seems like a strong way of improving the value of steem as a currency while also insuring it doesn't get gobbled up by a competitor. (turkey pun intentional)... 

Creating a percentage distribution of payout (as you mention under "encouraging competing websites") is a great incentive. 

For the other artists out there - we cover a huge number of other websites / outlets to promote and engage people with our content. This could be a sustainable way to maintain our existing relationships on other sites while generating an umbrella income from all of them.