Awesome post Jon, you really hit the nail hard with this one!

I've been thinking the past 2-3 days re Paypal. Here in New Zealand, we can still use that payment processor to make payments, just cannot top-up like we used to. So, I got wondering, the lose of Paypal is not an excuse, it's an opportunity.

Site owners had to adjust quickly to survive. The ones who could do that back then are the ones we see today, with new systems and structures in place.

Perhaps we've been viewing Paypal far too long as the enemy, when really what has happened is a truly a blessing. The future is here, on Steem and platforms like it that embrace this new crypto age. We are living now on the cusp of a major change movement that will determine humanity going forward for the next 25-50 years.

Great to be part of that movement! After all, a new birth often is painful, and pain is just something we all have to endure from time to time.