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RE: A VERY STEEM HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION--GIVING STEEM POWER TO THE FUTURE
This is a very cool idea, @cryptkeeper17! I have been telling many people about steemit, yet they just don't seem all that enthralled for some reason... maybe it's just me (probably lol).
No, it's definitely not just you. Talking about this is definitely a mouthful. People seem to always really throw their guard when people are excited about a new "too good to be true" concept. In that Wright brothers book I read and posted about something absolutely shocked me was that no one really believed them that they had made a flying machine at first. They made multiple offers to the US government to purchase the rights to their machine AND THEY WOULDN'T EVEN SEND SOMEONE TO SEE THEM USE IT IN ACTION. After a while these guys being patriots first, but businessmen second went to the British government then the French government who finally bit. Within sixty years of the first manned flight in Kitty Hawk, NC the US landed on the moon. So yeah I totally see where you are coming from there is a fine art to talk about this, especially among those most skeptical. Maybe they'd rather just hear you jam, did you ever consider that? Glad to hear from you keep up the great work @gjones15.
Hahah maybe... I don't know. I'm in a bit of a defeatist mood right now lol. But that bit on the Wright Bros.. thank you very much for that. How amazing to consider... man. lol people can be so dduuuumb!!!! (just had a case of deja vu. Weird.) Anyway thanks for the vote of encouragement.
Cyptocurrency is complicated. The average person sees it as money out of thin air with no value. Clearly a scam :(
That's a valid point. The nice thing about steem is that can't buy alcohol with it, tobacco, or just about any other crap that a youth can squander graduation money on. Trading $20 in steem sure doesn't make a lot of sense to trade for bitcoin either. So as of right now, that money spent really has one destination, at least until more people/businesses start accepting steem as an accepted payment. You are right, many people do see crypto as a scam, but I have been scammed out of more than $20 in the past and have had far less fun than working in this platform. Thanks @edicted, I saw your posts on q-filter, they are quite good, I will be weighing in on and voting as well. Keep up the conversation, it's great! And keep up the great work!
Ha, ha, I am pretty big "homer" when it comes to steem though, so yeah I am definitely biased.