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I think the open question is whether this incentive structure is scalable to a large number of users. It may be that SN's incentive structures work well with this highly self-selected group of users, but that either A) they fail to stop working well if the userbase grows large/mainstream, or B) the incentive structure actually serves to keep the SN userbase relatively small.
One of my friends thinks B is pretty likely because he has a low opinion of the average person's willingness to read text, haha
I should also add that this friend actually considers that a positive. He said he prefers interacting with a small, niche, and knowledgeable communities than mainstream ones. Which, of course, makes total sense.
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Great job on maintaining a tight scope to the paper. I am very glad you are not trying to say much about self-custody (not that there isn't a lot you could say, but I agree with you that it's a different paper).
We need to figure out how to get Szabo's attention with this. SN is such an interesting response to his "mental cost of microtransactions," it'd be really fascinating to hear what he has to say about it.
I second the others who have said that this is an awesome project. Great job!