>"Each user would simply add their 30 most trusted curators (aka friends) to their account and the Account Rank algorithm will automatically distribute influence among the friends. This would result in trust flowing outward from whales and down to more people who currently don’t have much voice or curation power." 

I love this idea, the only thing I can see wrong with it is what is to stop curators from voting on their own stuff/ why would a whale want to give up their voting power when they can make more doing it themselves? I really do like this idea im just trying to play devil's advocate for a second.