Not making it on STEEM after the fork

in #busy5 years ago (edited)

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With 33% cut off of my rewards here on steem, I am dead.

I might get 160 steem transferred tomorrow. This will be about $20 to live on for one week. I would normally save half of any removal for rent coming due on the 15th. Hmmm....

My rent is about 125 usd a month once the fees to get the cash are taken into account. This is around 1300 steem now.

Not happening.

Those who could help are either busy excitedly downvoting with theycallmedan or have decided they need to go out and get more noobs to kill as in the case of ocd with a post trying to get people from reddit. That will work. ocd's rationale for this is that there is no more available talent posting here on steem so they need fresh meat.

Other posts are explaining how to bot your way to $20 a post so you are not such a loser.

And the sad posts of minnows and redfish are getting little reward and no attention.

STEEM has a 95% kill rate already.

Today many of the awesome small fish we have are swimming away.

Who is going to test dApps, and engage, and make steem a vibrant place if there is no lower and middle classes? I think some of you will soon know the answer to that question.

Where will I go if I cannot stay here? I am 60 years old and disabled with no family, and live in a country where I have no work permit. I could not work a "real" job if I had one due to my health. My weight loss coaching takes time and does not provide money. My books sales have no us account to deposit to.

STEEM has been my path for the last 2 years. It seems this has come to an end.

I will keep posting as long as I can. This post tells you how I am trying to survive and help other small fish too:

Minnow Tips: What to do after the fork if you are a small fish

My photo is From my Bangkok balcony after a big flood we had. Where there is life, there is hope.

If you want to help me keep posting on STEEM, here is some information:

Why should you help me? Why do I think I am worthy of help?

I am an asset to the STEEM blockchain. My constant effort goes to helping redfish and minnows grow here.

I work on three blogs, creating 40+ posts each week. The most important things I post are minnow tips to help others. Here is a post from a few weeks ago with a summary of many of those tips.

You CAN Succeed on STEEM

I am working on a new set of posts in light of all the new tribes and options for them. It is a whole now world of STEEM now that this has happened.

This is what I do on STEEM:

I post 2-4 posts on each blog each day, cycling through the noted dApps below.

@fitinfun

  • esteem - freewrite
  • busy - Minnow Tips
  • nTopaz - Photography

@fitinfunfood

  • esteem- food and ccc posts
  • tasteem - restaurant reviews
  • busy - how to posts about food

@bxlphabet

  • esteem - dApp and gaming reviews
  • dpoll- dApp, lifestyle, and STEEM questions
  • busy - daily holidays

How you can help me

  • Please send any amount of STEEM/SBD to @fitinfun so I can survive.

  • Please upvote any current posts on any or all of my blogs; especially the older ones.
    @fitinfunfood
    @bxlphabet
    @fitinfun

  • Please support any or all of my blogs in an ongoing manner with your auto-voting and following so I can continue on and not have to keep asking for help.
    @fitinfunfood
    @bxlphabet
    @fitinfun

  • Please send any amount of money to my new SE Asian Paypal account.

[email protected]

Send any amount of LTC to
Lhuh274DFkS6CNq4SJjhNem242QYwcTu59

  • If you can "only" vote some posts - It is enough.
  • If you can "only" send 1 STEEM - It is enough.
  • If you can "only" offer advice for how I can do better - It is enough.
  • If you can "only" offer encouragement and good wishes - It is enough.

Thank you so much for your attention,

Sharon
Discord:
fitinfun #2249

The photo for this post is a taxi I passed on the way to the airport in Bangkok. I am going through my vehicle photography these days in preparation for a series to try on the new travelfeed dApp. For someone that does not drive, I sure take a lot of vehicle pics. I took this one with a Canon ELPH160 point and shoot camera.

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The whales are getting desperate. This fork seems to be all about saving the whales at the expense of the rest of us. Then people wonder why I don't use all of my Witness Votes. Because most of the witnesses are egotistical jerks, that's why. 😣

Haha! Well, I do not know too many of them and I have gotten help from some. I always had the idea that a lot of vibrant minnow accounts could make this place great. I still have hope, but I need to be able to eat and keep a roof over my head. I wish I could see some positive sign at all.

I don't need to know them. I see their actions in the blockchain.

This is my complete Witnesses List:

@blocktrades
@busy.witness
@c-squared
@curie
@dsound
@good-karma
@krnel
@steem-bounty
@steemitboard
@steemitportugal
@steempeak

There are a lot of other STEEM projects I enjoy but I refuse to support them as they vote for a Witness who I consider to be a leech, a scammer and one of the main culprits for Steem to be in the sorry state that it is now. Everybody knows how toxic that guy is... but they still vote him for a Witness. Go figure.

I must be a nobody, since I have no idea how you mean, but go you for not supporting a bad guy. Hopefully others will follow. I have not looked at my witnesses for a while. It is very far down my list.

Eh, I was not refering to us, common red fish and minnows but about the whales and the rest of the witnesses. 😁

I must be a nobody as well Sharon, this is the first time I've heard the term
REDFISH
Used in reference to us small fry. Minnow, Dolphin (though I never knew
Exactly what dolphin status was) but not redfish. I'll try to send you
Some USD in paypal, but it will only be a stopgap, if you have
Been depending on Steemit to pay your bills. This is a case
Where you should be able to take this up to the "SUPREME COURT"
of Steemit, if something like that were to exist. I hate it for you my friend.
@fitinfun

Haha! Redfish are those with under 500 sp. You get to be a minnow at 500-5000. Dolphin is at 5000-50000 sp. Then orca to 500,000 sp - then whales above that.

I will look for that court you are talking about. Until then, thank you so much for your generosity @jerrytsuseer. Not only does this really help me financially, it also boosts my spirits. I will keep going and trying everything I can to succeed.

Well, in recent months you have been getting upvotes from tokens too (all at 50% author rewards) that you weren't getting a year ago. It isn't all doom and gloom. There will be an adjustment period. But the real problem isn't the amount of rewards it is the value of steem. You are probably getting more a lot more Steem (if you include the tokens too) than you were 6 months/a year ago. It is just worth less.

TY for this comment Bruce, @felt.buzz. I sure need the optimism. I do have maybe $50 value in about 50 tokens across the three blogs now. I need find a path in there, but I am grateful for it all.

And yes, my steem sp has grown a lot this year - even while powering down. I try to keep the sp growing each week by adjusting what I take out. I know this will pay off if/when the steem price recovers and I can give better upvotes.

And my bxlphabet will be in on SPUD5 for a small amount. Every little bit of growth to sp helps.

Will Steem ever be worth anything after this juncture? ...Not much chance for tribe tokens to grow in value if Steem is worthless crypto... What are your thoughts?

Hmm... Well, I know it went to 10 cents in 2016 and rebounded, @apostle-thomas. I do not feel the STEEM blockchain is worthless or I would not be here at all. The coin performance is a mystery.

I spent a few days a month ago trying to figure out the fork. I underestimated the devastation for low end rewards. BUT I did come way from that effort deciding the whales and witnesses I could read, reach and interact with really do care about this place. I decided to
just.
keep.
posting.
I use great dApps, have great friends and was able to survive when the price was above $1. Now I am in better shape - more upvoters, more sp, more sbi etc. So if theprice goes up, I will be ok. Right now I do not even have money for food.

But that is me. What about the new people coming in? Who will help them figure this place out if there are no people except big guys? This is why we need a middle class.

I have 50+ tribe tokens. As long as STEEM succeeds some of them will too. Which ones? I do not know.

I agree with your comment

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Around Christmas time last year I donated some Steem to you to help you pay your rent. I had no issue doing that, despite people around me warning me against it (they are capitalists).
This time around I do not have the liquid Steem to help anyone.

The price of Steem is the worst I have seen it in my time here. I bought into Steem at US$5.
I had hope when it reached US$0.44 earlier this year after the semi recovery from the Christmas winter, but now I don’t know what to think.

I wanted to see if I could be a dolphin this year, but it doesn’t look like this will happen.

I'm with you on the issues of the price, @shaidon. We do not rise with the tide but surely sink with the fleet each time. It is hard to believe that the value of this blockchain is recognized by so few.

One bright spot for me is that my sp has grown a lot with the low prices. This is even with powering down and only by the 40+ posts I do weekly on my 3 blogs. As long as I can, I will keep up that volume.

I did not know we had capitalists here! Do these people post? I have surely missed what they have to say.

I so appreciate your support in December and with upvotes since then. You can only do what you can do and I m very grateful for it all.

After I made my call for help at that time, a generous steemer who believes in minnows and minnow tips started helping me financially. This ended two months ago, which is why I am right back here trying to get followers and more regular voters again. I have been asking, but I guess not loudly enough.

And that is why it is dangerous for people who don't know how asset values behave, to invest in cryptos like that.
EVERY coin and every asset in the past 5 years that I have followed has only rebound when it hit 90+% retracement from the highest price.

There needs to be a major education for folks who don't understand this yet,s o that they don't piss away their life earnings on stuff like that, BEFORE it has retraced to the levels before the bullrun. I see comments like these so often and am wondering why no one wants to educate people on that.

To clarify: When I say "bought into" it just means the price Steem was when I started my DTube account. I didn't invest in crypto in that sense. It's just worth a lot less than when I started accumulating it.

Thanks for sharing @fitinfun... My take away is that Steem is adrift in the blockchain ecosystem. The price is 80% lower than when I started in January after a 2-month wait. I'm hearing some accounts have been wiped clean and told the TWITTERVERSE what we all are going through ~ A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT!

Will there be a Dapp for recovering Steemians After the HF21 and now immediately HF22... How do any of those wonderful innovations make anything better for Steemians when NO BODY in social media sees any incentives to on-boarding...

How can anyone on-board with NO SP for the user account to function... TOO BAD DON'T GET MAD DON'T BE SAD JUST CHILLAX AND FIND A WAY TO BE GLAD!

Of course, this doesn't change or disrupt my worldviews... I see a fantastic challenge to health wealth happiness on this Steem journey... I will continue to blog and pursue cryptocurrency investment opportunities with the tribes until an HF kills that community of the blockchain as well!

Aw! I am so sorry to read this, @apostle-thomas. I know you have been optimistic in the past. I will keep trying as long as I can and hope we are both wrong about a lot of things. The dApps and tribes are my bright spots now and I need to keep that in mind.

As to the price, I feel that the STEEM blockchain is undervalued and needs investors to grow. But if there are no little people here, the whole paradigm changes.

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My books sales have no us account to deposit to.

....have you tried to use an online US bank account?
(tranferwise, among others.)

They are very good.
...easy sign up to, and transfer my $US to my account here, no problem.

Hope it helps!

How do you use? I had 4 us accounts when I got here, and all are gone now for various reasons.

...sign up online with ID, and away you go. (i'm a uk citizen, not even US)

Transfer direct into my account here, from the US.

(working out how to is a bit of a bugger, but I'm sure you can suss it)

TY - I will remember this. I have zero cash to even open an account with right now, but I will try if I do.

You don't need to deposit to open it!
It takes 24 hours to approve, if i remember correctly.

Hi @fitinfun

Interesting read. HF21 is a very hot topic today :)

I wonder how will this fork impact users behaviours. So far it seem that most people will be upvoting content which is already popular.

When I upvoted post with 0$ then my upvote was worth only 1,04SP and it used to be 1,7SP before the fork. However when I upvoted the highest post in trending page (100$) then my upvote increased reward by over 2 SP. So pretty much it doubled in strength.

So somehow pushing your content to trending page will bring some solid traffic.

Upvote on the way :)

Yours
Piotr

I think we have to wait for the dust to settle. Hopefully all is better than it seems.

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