Facebook + Bitcoin = baby Steem! ha ha that made me laugh sooo much! Genius! Jerry you are just Genius! To be honest my opinion is:
- Facebook / Bitcoin great inovations, when the main virtue for both is freedom. on FB people can transmit whatever messages they want, and connect with friends easy. Also mass scale ofc is helping a lot! BTC is great alternative to banks, so good news too.
- So both those inovations "broke the ice" in terms, that now social media, expanded that much, many more projects became more freely. Freedom of speech reached unbelievable scale! Even popular media channels such as BBC / CNBC / CNN etc are listening what free media broadcasters are saying (Youtubers, FB). So evolution is another important factor wight here.
- As about Steem, I am a believer. Just couple things Steemit team to have work faster, and harder: content of the project: so much trash is around.... sometimes hard to filter what is good information, and what is just copycats. And other thing is that Steemit, the whole idea can be copied itself.... Imagine any other big player, with huge finances coming and making ICO, then making such Social:crypto space, and just expanding at unimaginable speeds. Because like it or not, finances and budget still means a lot when it comes to expanding markets, and advertisements...
- Governments got shakes very seriously, by both projects: Facebook / Bitcoin. If you remember when Facebook was still in early infant level, some local govs of USA gov, was trying everything to stop FB expansion.... saying it is breaking copyright rules, etc etc. But Mark Zuckenberg is a very smart guy, and he gradually implemented FB growth into society. Then even those governor's daughters and sons started using Facebook all around. Same with Bitcoin, the open code is there. The 21 mln coins total supply is limited, and any government and any person in the world, can say anything bad about it, but the Crypto revolution is happening, it is right now, right here! Our chidren and grandchildren will be learning in history books about very this moment!
I am very optimistic about all the Crypto evolution!
(PS: I like Steem)