RE: What's Keeping Steemit From Mass Adoption?
Prices will be set by speculation until the currency is used in the real world, outside the strict "Steemit ecosystem", for Buying Stufftm.
The currency itself should be marketed as well, it has many strengths for practical use, after all. There's push and pull marketing; focussing on just one of those means doing half a job. I would like to see more emphasis on marketing the currency-as-a-currency for third parties.
Imagine (or dream), for example, Ebay facilitating Steem or SBD as a payment method. That would attract more users than a polished Steemit interface, and also set a real value for the currency.
Bitcoin may be well-established, but it is showing its weaknesses in real-world transaction. The time is now for a fast alternative, and other currencies are focussing on that. If we miss this boat, Steem will be an also-ran.
Current faith: low.
Even Bitcoin is literally coming to a fork in the road for mainstream adoption?? United we stand divided we fall??
Too much unison aka complacency and lack of discussion has often been a cause of failure, and failing in a united way is nothing much to shout about. I'm worried, is all.