Steem: More than a Blog
A Steady Stream of Stupid Questions
I like to ask questions about stuff I don't know. A lot of times, that means I ask a question that is pretty stupid. But that's ok...asking stupid questions got me interested in Ethereum and Bitcoin in the first place.
It seems like there is a negative correlation between confidence and intelligence, at least on the internet. And yet, the smartest, most successful people will often talk about how much they read (because they don't know everything) and will often ask follow up questions and press when they don't fully understand a concept.
I try to write clear ideas about the crypto market, but am going to inevitably fail at it. The fact is, most "guarantees" you see in this space are hogwash...especially when price speculation is involved.
Is Bitcoin going up in price? Is Steem? It's a lot of fun to read articles that focus on why your favorite cryptocurrency is going to the moon, but do we do ourselves any favors by reading these articles?
No. In fact, these are the equivalent of watching tv news for tips on the stock market.
My Best Indicator
Rather than focus on prices, which vary wildly (and are often subject to manipulation and don't necessarily accurately reflect value), I like to focus on whether developers have incentives to develop on a platform. This is why I think Steem is so great: let's face it, if we had to wait for Steemit Inc to develop everything on here, this platform would be dying. The plans are great, but we've been waiting for quite a while for product to be shipped. We've all had followers who used the platform for a month or two before getting sick of the interface and early 2000's feel of the tech.
This is the truth, and we can't sugarcoat it.
But the fact remains, there are a ton of other things to do with a DPOS platform like Steem, and developers are busy finding out what those are. Right now there are seven projects giving payment implementation options using Steem and SBD, meaning website owners can sell their goods using the Steem blockchain (no fees and instantaneous!). Steem Projects shows over 300 projects that people are building on top of the Steem blockchain.
This project really is a grassroots effort.
The Takeaway
The reason I brought all this up is this: Steem is a great platform which is far bigger than it seems to be. If we look at it with new eyes, we'll see that there is enormous potential to bring in new users, regardless of some of the short term pains we're dealing with. Last week's interview with @yabapmatt showed us how the Witness system creates hustlers who are working their tails off to bring value to the platform, at no cost to us users.
Steem may fail: EOS might come around and take all the great aspects of Steem, repackage it in a better UI/UX, and take a huge chunk of users from here...depleting the value of Steem and SBDs with it. But even if that were to happen, even if Steemit Inc were to go bankrupt, I think we're going to see the Steem blockchain power on. There are so many incentives to keep people acting as witnesses, to use it as an instant send option for value transfer (it's "good enough" for 90% of the population), and developing on it is fairly easy.
Steem is more than a blogging platform. The more Steemians realize that, the more we're going to realize how powerful this platform really is.
-Jeff
What are your ideas on how to make this platform better as users?
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You're exactly right, this platform is the place to be. Soon all those Facebook people will see what a real social media platform is, one that pays you for your ideas, content, photos, music, time, and devotion. One of the best things about Steemit is, I don't have fake news popping up on my feed or Facebook censoring my gun or coin posts. This is the place to be in 2018. 👍👍
Ooh, guns! What's your favorite gun? I really like the M14 but don't have one. :-/
Mostly into handguns. My favorites are all on a 1911 frame. I like an old Colt Gold Cup .45acp I picked up in the '80's for $150.
I think I've shot a 1911 once. I like the platform but never had enough extra cash to buy one, although CMP is going to be selling surplus 1911's sometime in the next year or two. How cool would it be to have a GI surplus 1911???
It would be super cool, I'm trying to find a gun club I can join so I can purchase one. I've been watching the updates from CMP.
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Thanks! Love helpful bots!
Thank you, such articles are inspiring. There are several options for victory over rivals:
I do not know the people who are involved in the project, I do not understand yet what they are ready to go for the sake of victory. I'm not a programmer, for me there is no clarity on what the platform is capable of and what resources it has. I can only speak as a system user. Functionality, functionality and functionality once again, I think this is the way to success.
Exceptions to the maximum errors at boot, to exclude an endless series of repeated subscriptions, this takes time and nerves. The functionality of the list of friends, the responsiveness to the new posts of those to whom it is signed. Then the subscription will have its price, as long as it is a nomenclatural cloud. Exclude intermediate currencies between the Steem SBD and the US dollar. It is a hemorrhoids to transfer money through BTC. Still, I talked with druzmi, who came to the courage and then immediately left. Too open finances. Let the financial information be opened only for registered users, and not for all. It will stop scaring people. Still, my friends did not like that it was impossible to remove the video from DTube ... so they wrote to me .... these are the thoughts that I hope are aimed at improving the functionality and attracting new people.
As for weapons, my old IJ-54 from 1956 hits almost without a miss))
IJ-54. Is that a double barrel shotgun? What a beauty! I did a quick Google search and I like the look of it. What are the gun laws where you live? Are you able to have rifles and handguns?
Yes, it is a double-barreled horizontal smooth-bore rifle of the Izhevsk plant. It came from my grandfather. In Moldova, short arms are fairly easy to acquire and obtain a permit for it. To resolve
on automatic weapons you need to pass shooting courses and psychological examination. Hunting weapons are available, a psychiatrist and the police, the presence of a safe. During the Soviet Union. I was engaged in sports shooting. Rifle, Makcheva pistol, Margolin, revolver. At the age of 13 I already went to competitions. I was an avid hunter, it was transferred from my grandfather. He was born in Altai, but lived in Moldova. Every year he flew to his parents, he made reserves for a year. In the evenings we loaded him with cartridges of 12 calibers. He took with him to the Altai 1200 patrons. For the season its trophies were up to 300 ducks, geese, waders.
And about Steemit, can you help me? Yesterday I found out that someone is voting for me, twice yesterday and twice two times. I did not connect to auto-voting, how could this happen and how to turn it off? Yesterday I had twice a day problems with the computer, everything was hanging up, maybe I pressed something ....? Can not understand.
I don't know what the issue is, sorry! If you're worried about somebody having access to your keys, you could back them up and create a new master key.
Just be careful if you do that! It's easy to lose your keys if you're not careful...a very expensive mistake!
Thank you! I for this reason did not do anything. Fearfully))
My gun is not so beautiful, although the engraving is very beautiful. After the death of my grandfather passed many years. I found a bundle with a gun in his garage. The garage was damp and the rifle was badly rusted. Most of the prekada rotted and gave a trash. On the trunk, from the outside of the shell from rust. I brought him a little in order, how much he could do and it lasted a long time, until I gave up hunting 15 years ago. I started looking for a new gun a couple of years ago, thought to resume my hobby, but one day my friend showed me a video of how he was at his dacha, released a domestic rabbit, then shoots him and releases his husky on him .... this atrocity .... I do not want to be a hunter in the company of such people. If I followed the prey, I always gave the chance that I might miss, or not find a bird or a wild hare. And so, to shoot a defenseless rabbit in a confined space, it's just tin.
Wow, yeah, I've hunted but never something that easy. I wonder if something like that happened because he had never been taught to hunt in the wild.
With those types, you need to be patient and try to bring them on a real hunting trip, as much as is possible. Or introduce them to bow hunting.
Hunting with a bow and a crossbow in moldova is prohibited. This is considered a method of poachers. Can not hear the shot. The forest warden must hear what is happening in his forest. We have little wildlife. If there are, these are reserves, there you can not hunt. Mainly in Moldova hunting for a pigeon, a duck, a pheasant, a hare, a croissant, a wild boar, a fox and a wolf from predators, but wolves rarely enter our forests. And their shooting is associated only with a temporary need. I would not venture to hunt a predator because of frequent cases of rabies.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
In the States, bow hunting is considered more sporting than rifle, because you must get closer to the game.
It seems like it turned out to disconnect those who put me on the list for automatic voting, but, as it happened, I do not understand ... some young accounts, I did not exactly register them ... how they got access to my voices .... a riddle for me.
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Always look forward to you posts @protegeaa. I have been playing around with both Steemit and Busy.org and like some of features of both. Hopefully they keep building it out building functionality. I am not too worried about EOS until they actually get something running. They will most likely be fighting the same issues that Steem does with spam and those who impose their visions with massive down votes.
People are willing to take Steem for payment, infact I just posted about shipping 1 oz of silver for 6 shares of SteemBasicIncome (SBI). Will be great to see what else gets developed for STEEM.
There is definitely a lot going on beyond Steemit on the STEEM blockchain. And much more that could happen. When I think about what could be happening here, it makes me want the future faster. It also makes me want more from the present.
I think, however, I'm settling in here, getting used to things, overlooking the faults a little more and trying to post, comment and curate and see what happens. At some point, I might want to do something else, but I like doing those three things more than some of the other options available at the moment, so we'll see.
It's good to see you around. It's been a few days. I know you've got a lot going on but thought I just say, "Hey. Good to see you." :)
Thanks! I really enjoy writing and am happy when I can make the time to do it. I love having four kids, but gosh if that doesn't make my time extremely limited. o_O
It doesn't seem like that long ago I had two young boys running around, but both of them are in their mid-to-late 20s, married, one with a child and the other expecting. The one with the granddaughter lives with us so we've been watching her grow up and do things. Been working on scooting around furniture and taking a few unaided steps.
As much as I can say, in spite of it all, that I enjoyed fatherhood, being a Grandpa so far has most of the benefits without most of the downside. :)
Sad thing is, it all happens before you know it. Not sure if a stay-at-home parent experiences their children growing up in the same way as work-away parents, but it sure seemed to fly by for me. And it's not gotten any slower since.
I was fortunate, though, when they were in middle school on up to work for myself and be able to arrange my schedule around practices and games, so I can't say I missed out a whole lot. But I worked for someone else for the 10 or so years prior to that time, so missed a lot of the day-to-day things I would have witnessed more of if I had been at home.
Congratulations on grandfatherhood. It's a blessing and I'm eager for it when that time comes.
I am so glad that you think it is a good idea to ask lots of (stupid) questions :) Because you know that you will get many more from me.
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for turning me on to the plugin from Wordpress to steemit! Because of that, I am so much more excited about my podcast again.
Also, you said you might be able to make an evening meeting. What is a good day and what is a good area for you?
I'm glad you're liking it! I've been incredibly busy lately and have been posting less, but not for lack of desire and love of this platform.
Late May sometime will work; I'll get back to you in a couple weeks and maybe we can figure out some possibilities. :-)
Great!!! Thank you.
Great post, the only stupid question is a question that goes unasked. The more we know the more we grow (Jeez I am full of one liners today). Bottom line is that is you want to be good at something then you need to really understand it. Questions and reading will help get you their.
to me steemit is growing, and also steem is gaining an edge in the cryptocurrency market. so to me i can say steemit is a good place to be.