My Initial Thoughts Of Steemfest 4 & Steem (Jet Lagged Edition)
I am half-baked from jet lag atm, so please mind my energy level and voice. But I wanted to upload my exact unfiltered thoughts when I got home from the airport. 20+ hours of flight + 4 hours of driving and I am home from a great adventure.
Steemfest was amazing. I've never been in the same area with so many like-minded people, everyone loved Steem! Which was like heaven because you can catch me talking about Steem to my cats, so an actively educated audience was a very nice experience for me.
We didn’t talk of moon pies or what we'd buy when Steem hit X, no, we talked roots and dirt. We talked about the core elements of Steem and how each project could benefit. Leaders like @starkerz organized a round table for dapps to discuss redundant work being done. Example: Threespeak built a comment proxy system where users can log in with FB/GOOGLE ETC and leave comments and earn Steem without a Steem account. Well, now 5+ different projects have done the same work, and each did it on their own. WE can split the load as a community to help build things faster, open source so the next project can benefit. I live my life as, leave where you been better than when you came, and with Steem I feel the same way. Us as projects can leave Steem a better place for the next project.
"Someone told me long ago, that there is a calm before the storm, I know! It’s been coming for some time...
When it's over so they say, it'll rain a sunny day, I Know! shining down like water." - Creedence clearwater
I know many remains have heard of the return of the glory days. I argue Steem has never been more glorious as it is now. Steemians traveled from all over the world with business in mind and pleasure in their backpacks. I knew it was there but a part of me had to feel it, see it for myself in the eyes of those who I admire. I admire many Steemians here, draw strength from their wisdom, vision from their mistakes and power from their confidence.
Shout out to @buttcoins - tell a friend about Steem!
To spare you a book of text to read, I will continue from the mic.
▶️ 3Speak
I watched this vid around 8 hours ago, but being myself van-lagged coming from Koh Chang and not being such a great commenter, I didn't reply to this but, since I'm here again...
Having one of the biggest Steem investors of 2019 going to Thailand and seeing it all first hand, how the community engages in real life, how the conferences go and being able to speak to other investors, devs, the Steemit inc team and overall interact with the community and then, coming back home and post this video with such positive conclusions and positive outcome means a lot, at least for me.
It gives the community the reassurance we need that our investors are positive about what steem has to offer and the potential we hold, at least for the buyers, speculators and other potential investors. It gives minnions and dolphins alike the certainty that we are indeed not part of a Blockchain that holds no value for crypto whales.
I hope that other crypto whales (at least one) get to watch this video and decide to get in on Steem just as you did.
Thanks for the past week man, great experiences shared and hopefully more to come over the next years. Steem on.
The reason I am optimistic about Steem is that it has the best community of like-minded people committed to success even in the middle of the crypto winter.
I am also enthusiastic about Steem because it has the best blockchain architecture combining immutable data with social consensus, while allowing great flexibility for user interfaces, app concepts and soft protocols.
Steem can become a perfect platform for business, attention trading, social web hosting, complex e-commerce systems and a lot more.
Good to know you got home safe! It was an honor to meet you and MeLlamanGabi ;) at steemfest.
Great Resume of Steemfest4! I am looking forward to a great future of steem. As you said! To every problem there is a solution and we have a great community working on it so there is great potential! we are also working on our roadmap and business plan to be well prepared to our trip to the moon! Lets see what we can do until next steemfest! Exciting times with great people!
Oh man.... it was so sweet to hear your voice again. And now with this human face to go with it. I listened to this and closed my eyes and you were right there...
love that story of you laughing thinking about Buttcoins... you made me laugh out loud in a public place.
You are so right about this blockchain actually having what other coins want... real community.
Just gotta keep that infection rate growing person by person until it’s an epidemic 😷🤣🤣
Omg, 24 hours. That does sound like a challenge. I hope you will recover soon.
Being the first time on Steem Fest, I should say that's the best thing I've ever done in my entire life. I want more and more often. I was quite inspired by all of the work people had put into Steem over the last two months even. I cannot wait for the next year to see how all of our combined efforts come smoothly together.
It was also a big pleasure meeting you in person. I felt a small weirdo standing near you and andrarchy haha. But oh my God, I wouldn't trade this experience for anything else. You're an amazing person. Keep up the good work with 3Speak and your dedication towards Steem. And don't forget about China. We have to make it happen.
Steem Fest was a once in a lifetime experience for me. It was great meeting so many like-minded people. It was a pleasure meeting you as well!
I was wondering when I'd see your post Dan about Steemfest and I guessed right about the delay due to the jetlag. You're definitely refined a s more motivated I can feel it, sometimes we need to see the core, come across people who love Steem and well, hoping to see pictures I know you had fun too. Cheers Dan
I will post a more formal Steem Fest post with photos etc. Was a really amazing time that can't just be described with words.
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I'm super glad you experienced what I was able to experience last year when I went to SteemFest3. It really did bug me I couldn't attend this year for that exact reason as it is one of the most uplifting things I've ever experienced. The people, the builders, the ideas, the like-mindedness (because politics finally don't matter if we talk about Steem...). It's beautiful.
Recover well, it took me a month :') See you at SteemFest5!
Great report, love the vibe. Quick suggestion have the largest graphic size of the 3 Speak logo available for download we can use this to print t shirts, and print up some print materials for mini meet-up's. We can give away or use in promotions. Thank you, Rich of Globalmerchant.io in Honolulu.
Thanks for the tip, will let the devs know to add this somewhere for easy download.
Hi @theycallmedan I am really glad that your experience this round is you keep hearing the "clinkers and clankers" discussion on getting solutions out instead of just political rants (if you know what I mean).
I truly believe this should truly be in a conference, especially a community strength reliance based like the Steem blockchain.
Just today I wrote my sharing (on the community centrism account) Why Communities Local Support is Important for STEEM to Thrive with a real case scenario and how the Steem community is able to help another traveler with a simple situation to solve. This can be a normal thing when STEEM is experience down to the human level.
Have a read and I'd love to know what you think.
(Hopefully we'll meet again in SF5)
jup, but i would love to the "weels turning moment'" moment more often. btc maximalists still hate steem, new people often have btc as entrance/exit barrier. but anyway thanks for your thoughts!
did you talk with @elipowell? At least she was there. (i was actually kind of suprised about that, as she is like not posting OR staking steem)
I did meet her, super nice and I got good vibes from her.