Hello!

I heard that you are a STEEM holder, and is positive about the potential and the future of this blockchain and the STEEM ecosystem (including SMTs).

You already saw a lot of posts around here, detailing how amazing this platform is, how fast and cheap (no fees!) this blockchain is, and how this is a revolution happening on the way everyone will use social media.

I agree with you. But do you know what we are missing around here to make this place rocket up to the moon?

Brazilians

Brazilians LOVE Social Media

Why you ask? Let me show you some numbers:

For starters, let me show you this graph:

This is the projection from the site Statista with a projection of the increase of social media users in Brazil.

Brazil have a population of 213 Millions people (Source), and in the projection above, half the population around here will be using social media by the year of 2022.

The next graph i have to show you, also from Statista, shows that Brazil is the 4th Country in the world in number of faceboor users, and all 3 countries above us have way more people.

(BTW, the first graph is older, and you can see on the newer one, Facebook users already surpased the projections for the whole social medias users expected)

Brazilians are known worldwide as a warm people, that love social interactions, and this huge amount of users on sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. reflects a bit of our general personality.

Brazilians Developers Everywhere

Brazilians are a people that like technology, and we have a huge amount of universities that provide technology related courses.

Every year, we put on the market a big amount of developers, coders, system engineers, and a lot of other professionals that work on technology in general.

And we export these professionals.

You don't have to search much, and you will find brazilians working on google, microsoft, EA, facebook, ubisoft and a lot of others big companies.

Here on steemit we have a good example: @hernandev has been contributing for @utopian-io for a while now, and has launched an website that allow you to check you steemit payouts, called Steem.Show

If brazilians developers start to join Steemit, i bet my SBD stack that we will see a lot of development on the steem apps.

Is there brazilians around here?

If you look at the tag #pt, you will see a lot of movement there. Along with all other portuguese speaking communities, we all use the tag #pt to write articles on our mother language, and every day we see new brazilian steemians arriving.

So far, the last count we did, we found 558 brazilians users, and this amount is starting to grow day after day.

But think a bit about this and the others numbers i showed you above, and keep in mind that cryptocurrencies and steemit is a new topic around brazilians groups.

We are 558 now, but we have a potential to reach 100 million users!

But how can Brazilian community grow?

Now allow me introduce you to

Yes, @brazilians!

This was started by @thomashblum and @casagrande, some of our olders steemians around here, and the philsophy behind it is to curate and help every new brazilian that arrive here on steemit.

I fondly remember when i wrote my #introduceyourself post in portuguese, and was quickly greeted by @brazilians, @thomashblum, and other brazilians. That day i started to find out how big this can be for us!

And what @brazilians do?

We try to gather together as many brazilians as possible.

These days, the @brazilians account work as a curator, where it upvote, comment and resteem good posts written in portuguese.

But it's not only that! We have a Discord and a Telegram group, where we can find people all over the country talking about not only steemit, but all kind of topics. Discord and Telegram groups are integrated, and we have a big chat between brazlian community (A big thanks to @casberp. It's a mess sometimes, but its really fun!)

@brazilians as a community, is always trying to find out new ideas to write about, and the members are always helping each other on how to better use the platform and the blockchain.

We also have a Twitter account with 4,7k follower. So, another 4k potential steemit users already!

Here is some nice things going on that started within our community:

• #filmoteca - our tag for the community to write review or anything related to movies (All posts can be found here
• Dicionário da música - We talk about music. We write posts about famous and not-so-famous music artists. The latest post from @wiseagent was about the band Noahs
• #eraumavez - created by @barbaralisarti, she started to write short story, and and at the end of the post, she call on someone else to continue the history. Some pretty crazy lisergic histories going on there... you can check the latest part of it here
• @matheusggr is our resident doctor. He write good posts about health. In his latest posts, he wrote part #4 of his posts about psycology.
• @fireguardian is writing about his travel experiences, posting his road diary, talking about his experiences while traveling.
• @julisavio is our investing advisor. He write a lot of good posts about other sides of investing, like the psycology of investing decisions
• @robertoueti is one of our podcasters. You can check his latest upload on #dsound, talking about how to make you own podcast
• And a lot of others good authors, like @wagnertamanaha, @thomashblum, @alyaugusto, @belzunces, @paulo.sar, @leticiachiantia, and so much others!

And that is the whole point of its existence: Help Brazil community grow, with a big special attention to those that produce quality content.

The road ahead

We have been talking a lot these days about how can we make things grow bigger around here. Here is some of the ideas we are talking about on how to better use @brazilians to improve our community and Steem as a whole:

• Create a campaing to bring in famous social media influencers
• Talk to brazilian crypto exchanges to add STEEM on their sites
• Start a segmented curation by topics (art, music, health, crypto, etc)
• Plans to advertise steemit around other social media sites
• Develop a front-end for portuguese speakers users
• a lot of other crazy ideas that we are throwing on our discord channel.

Amazing! How can i help?

We need to grow, so we can start to show the people that still don't have an account on steemit how good things are around here. That way we can attract more and more brazilians to take residence here on our beloved blockchain.

Here is where you might come in: Delegations. Even though we already have some delegation at our account, it is still not possible to upvote all good and amazing posts brazilians write around here, and without good posts being promoted, it will be hard to attract more people to use the platform.

So, here is you chance to expand Steemit beyond english speakers countries. Help @brazilians grow, and you will help Steemit grow!

You can use these links to delegate some of your SP:

10SP, 20SP, 30SP, 50SP, 100SP, 150SP, 200SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP

Also, if you don't want to lock your SP on delegations, donations are always welcomed, even less than 1 SBD/STEEM donations. Every bit helps.

But i want money!

Ok, i understand that some of you will want something in return for you help.

I can't say that you will start to recieve dividends from our project as soon as you delegate, but there is a bit talk going on our community, were we are trying to find the best way to reward everyone that contibute to the community as a whole, be it posting good articles, be it delegating SP/Donation.

On the next days, when we reach an agreement, @brazilians will post something about how we will reward our delegators.

By helping communities grow, you help Steem grow

There is a lot of unused potential on our blockchain. And we need to expand beyond english speakers. The world is big, and the revolution has begun. Let's all bring this revolution to every corner of the world!

Thank you a lot for your attention!

Half of the rewards of this post will be donated to the @brazilians account!

P.S.: About the comment from the user @felipejoys, @brazilians team sent me an message informing that he was banned due to personal attackes toward another members, more than once, and has been warned about his behaviour. The ban was being analised by the moderation team, but there was no consensus due to his repeated behaviour.