My understanding of all things technical-- let's just say I'm working on it, being a largely right-brained individual ;) I have great respect for anyone who is tackling something this big, all of it from the ground up, let alone implementation. I love that you're working on a way to solve some of the larger issues/problems going on in this platform--though that isn't me being critical of steemit, what I said to you about respect, goes for the creators of this site as well.
I'm from near Ithaca by the way, so hello former neighbor ;)