Steem price slapping the botties of the naysayers - and what we need to do to make it carry on

Do a little jig whilst you experience your Steem holdings shooting upwards to Jupiter.

It's the first day of 2018 (in case you haven't noticed), and like all good nerds, I'm spending it in front of the computer, watching all sorts of cool things happen in the crypto-sphere. And what's got me feeling great today is watching Steem bounce closer and closer to its all time high (which it reached in July last year).

Haven't we come a long way?

Earlier this year, back in September, when were together speaking at the London Investor Show, I was talking to @starkerz about the price of Steem, and we were both glassy eyed about the possibility (probability?) of Steem reaching $10 at some unspecified point in the future. Back then, it was as cheap as a hooker from Cleckheaton, languishing at around 85 cents.

Now, just a couple of months later, it's like it's taken some protein shakes and got a gym membership, and its powered up to well over $3.50, and when I met up with @starkerz and @stephenkendal last week in Huddersfield, we weren't talking about Steem hitting the $10 mark, we were pretty much regarding that as a given, especially with the imminent release of SMT's. Nope, we were talking about the $100 STEEM price. Now that's a target, that we can all look forward to.

But, being serious for a bit (which is tough for me, I know), I'm very keen to think about what it will take to make the price continue to rocket over the next year or so towards the superhighs.

There are loads of things that will grow the price of STEEM over the next few months. We could debate them all day long, but for me one of the absolutely key things is in educating those in the crypto-sphere as to why this blockchain is a serious contender.

At the moment, we know there's a lot of new money that's come into the general ecosystem. People are starting to look more at Bitcoin, and I guess as an extension, there's a lot of new speculation in altcoins too.

It amazes me though why STEEM isn't one of the top blockchains. With lightening fast transactions, an already massive userbase compared to many other coins (some which are ridiculously priced in comparison), and, here's the kicker the ZERO FEES, Steem should be hands down spanking a lot of the competition.

This makes me think that those of us in the community are perhaps missing something critical. And we are. It's called educating people. We need more and more people to get out and start telling the world about the STEEM blockchain, Steemit and what's coming in the next year. We need to show the creatives, the content creators and the generally anti-mainstream minded why they should be here, and not dicking around on Facebook, making Zuckerberg more and more cash to add to his warchest for his 2020 presidential bid.

That's why the people in the #promo-steem world are so important right now. And here's a new years honours list to some of the amazing folk who are smashing it out there bringing folk right around the world into the Steem community.

@reko, @ejemai, @tojukaka, @kemal13, @kesolink, @pennsif, @jassennessaj , @starkerz, @tomasgeorge, @ashleypeat, @albertjester, @thaiteam, @cakphotography, @zoltanbristol, @mrviquez, @levycore, @jaff8, @michaelcj, @destinysaid, @dokter-purnama , @mcfarhat , @phelimint, @stach, @bearone, @kwakumax, @nurhayati, @bait002, @mariska.lubis, @nmalove, @surpassinggoogle, @futurethinker, @tj4real, @ria, @dannyshine, @julee, @okoro, @samiwhyte, @pichat, @bukharisulaiman, @dwightjaden, @eroche, @theinsideout, @raymondbruce, @taimoorahmad, @fernwehninja, @agussafrizal - Just some of the great promoters out there. Apologies to those I've missed.

And of course, the Godfather of #promo-steem, a man who needs no introduction, but if you give him a platform will definitely give you one.... the one and only @stephenkendal for starting this whole thing off.

We will be giving an exciting update about #promo-steem very soon. Please stay tuned, and keep promoting Steem.