RE: Does the Centralization of the STEEM Economy Continue?
This is a very interesting calculation
I think the STEEM economy needs both the clubs and bid bots.
Many investors choose to stay in steem because @upvu can give them a good return/interest on their invested amount, so we need the big investors here.
But I agree that upvote bots/services also bring a lot of dirty posts that we don't want to see here.
Many local communities are growing and their steem power is also growing thanks to their members. But the members are left with very little voting power and are themselves dependent on the community voting them back. Or the clubs. It will be limited how long the steemit team can continue with it because users on steem must eventually learn not to depend on the clubs or the steemit team.
It is important to invest in one's own steem power, I mean to buy some steem so that they themselves can invest in their future here on steem. I would like to know how many of the active users actually buy some steem.
If only the big ones buy steem, there won't be a future with steem because when they don't get a good enough return on invested funds, they will sell to make their investments elsewhere.
The clubs are a great project, but if those who are in the clubs do not buy any steem and most of them are active today with the clubs, it will not bring steem in from the market, only the opposite way when they want to sell.
I believe that the clubs should be run by the local communities in the future, and that there should be a rule that also means that they buy some steem. There will certainly be many opinions on how this can be done.
We have to flow both ways with steem so that there is a balance in buying and selling, not just selling
The lack of demand for STEEM in the market is a real disaster for the project. Currently, the attractiveness of STEEM is negatively affected by many factors, including:
You are right, most active bloggers are active because they intend to make money. They are not investors and none of them have bought STEEM. How to attract investors? An investor does not care whether it is convenient to blog here, whether the content is interesting and whether the publications are of high quality. An investor should see the money he will earn from his investments. Now the easiest money is bid bots.
Investors can be attracted by a successful social project in which there are many people. Then new opportunities open up, in particular for advertising. But we all know that our whole STEEM community is not that big.
Due to the lack of real areas of application, cryptocurrencies are highly dependent on the faith of investors in the growth of their price. Returning faith is always incomparably more difficult than winning it with something new. There should be a core among us that would deal with the STEEM token. It is necessary to try to list it on more exchanges. Any listing is great advertising. It is necessary to increase the possibilities of using the token. Easier said than done, especially since it all comes down to the need for programming.
In order for more investors to appear, more people from economically prosperous countries need to learn about STEEM. We have a wonderful German community, but no British, French, American, or even Norwegian 😉.
What if we create an actual economy? I mean, person A offers a digital service and person B, pays with steems. Like, I can explain stuff about science, but someone else can teach Spanish... or another person can help someone else's daughter with her math homework.
We have a large enough community to create a knowledge economy.
I have another idea which involves journalism, but idk.
Your idea is great. I once suggested something similar. It would be great to create a platform where people could offer services and goods while getting paid in STEEM. Unfortunately, it is easier to suggest than to do. We lack developers.