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RE: STEEM blockchain use cases. // Beyond blogging//... and a million and 1 opinion

in #steem5 years ago

You certainly covered a lot of bases here.. and yes, I read all the way through!

From where I am sitting, one of the things that at least partially distinguishes from other crypto/blockchain projects is that here we are about more than just the eternal *TALKING about the million uses of blockchains, but not actually FUNCTIONALLY EXECUTING any of them."

Whereas I admire and appreciate much that @reggaemuffin does and has done here, I also disagree. Let's MAKE Steem a peer-to-peer currency; let's MAKE this place a trendsetting example, not just an experimental and theoretical testing ground.

Getting personal with ourselves — as an account representing an art gallery — let's try actually promoting and selling art on the blockchain, using a cryptocurrency! I don't want to just sit around and have lengthy discussions about "creating apps that lay the groundwork for apps that explore the possibilities of creating apps that actually facilitate selling art... an a complete different blockchain... using DIFFERENT apps."

That's not how you get mainstream adoption.

But I also recognize that the cryptosphere is filled with people who don't really care about "currencies," they just want to get into a project at 2 cents per token and cash out at 50 dollars per token. But that's not a currency. That's "playing the lottery." or "gambling." It has no functional use beyond a small handful of nerds dreaming of scoring a Lambo.

The reason I think the NetCoins thing is really important is precisely that it takes Steem to "Street level." Suddenly, you'll be able to buy Steem with your fiat debit card. Ta-da! And it makes a lot of sense for NetCoins, too. THEY get an established coin with thousands of active wallets... the other top two competitors are basically penny shitcoins nobody's heard of... but they certainly have the support of a large group of Reddit-like geeks.

Anyway... interesting and thoughtful post!

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Your comment is all over the place. Not sure what is your ideas and what is not. Mainstream adoption happens naturally when something gives a person more value in return. So you are wrong that things won't lead to mainstream adoption. Every single thing created helps to grow the network. Also NetCoin is not really important. This network takes years to build up. There is no magical pill here. Bitcoin is 10 years in and is still not mainstream. So all this short term thinking is not important.

Yes i fell down the rabbit hole and in the end i had to omit some other use cases because the post simply went on for far too long.
Reggaemuffin was correct in stating that the idea behind STEEM was in its dapp potential and content monetization, but as you pointed out... Lets make it a p2p currency. With all the things happening on the blockchain already i think we are actually coming to a point where i think we already succeeded to make it a p2p currency ready to challenge the traditional systems in place.

For all that NetCoins promises i think our combined efforts as a community is what shows the strength of the STEEM blockchain. Even in a bear market we proved not to everyone else, but to ourselves that there is actual drive and belief in success of the platform.
People tend to say how they love STEEM, how they believe in STEEM but when a time comes to prove it, then and only then are those words put to test.

Thank you for dropping by. :D

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