Taking a long exposure on Steem
Like many people most likely, I suffer from the emotional slings and arrows of outrageous crypto fortune too, I just don't hold my feelings in high enough regard to care much about them. There is a big difference between having emotions and letting emotions control behavior. Most people that show what they feel generally have very low emotional control and while they think it is a good thing, they ignore the harm they do. Most of the time, they just FUD themselves.
What I think balances the waves is having a long position on crypto. Sure, I like to play around with a little here and there but all in all, I am a holder for the future I am someone who believes that mass adoption is going to happen sooner or later and I don't care much about how soon it is going to be because I don't rely on it in anyway other than the one day position. Reliance on the uncontrollable is always going to pull at the emotional tethers and make the puppet dance.
In the shot above you can see how the water is a little milky, that is because it was a long exposure on moving water. Keeping the shutter open means that the image keeps getting shot making the movement blur until smooth, the waves gone. I see taking a long exposure position on crypto much the same as the movement over a long period of time smooths into a curve that I believe will be continually moving upward.
For example, this is the first 3 months of BTC in 2015
This is BTC from 2015 to the end of 2017, the start of 2015 is circled red
At some point, that massive spike at the end where it hit 20,000 dollars, ~100x up from 2015 might be softened out in much the same way and looked at across time, seem insignificant. You just have to hodl the shutter open long enough and let the movement of the waves go up and down until smooth. It isn't easy to hold though as there are so many other distractions, so many other sights that draw the attention and say, "hey, sell and buy me instead". It is endless and there are always more to come.
When it comes to Steem, I suffer the emotional pulls of the various forms of waves that ripple through here too and sometimes I wonder if it is going to survive at all. However, when I ignore the emotions and have a look at what is actually going on, time and time again Steem looks more and more impressive as a project, whether it be the growing number of apps or like I wrote in the last post, the ability to empower people and help them get into crypto and blockchain culture and understanding with amazingly low barriers considering the potential and propensity for complexity.
The very nature of Steem being a content delivery platform encourages me as while other projects are narrowly focused or target institutional investment and corporations, Steem caters for normal people, moms, dads, artists, writers, singers and creators of all kinds. What social media has proven so far is that people are willing to share their lives and what Steem offers is the ability to earn by sharing their skill. Sharing talent and getting feedback is an addictive process and, Steem is going to suck more and more people into its vortex, and empower them to create and earn as well as use.
While this is brilliant for the users, it is also a draw card for the same investors that the other projects are targeting, as what they will have is a large and diverse community that is knowledgeable and they can target with their narrow vision products. Steem provides other projects with a user base that they can leverage. People need to get the idea out of their head that there can only be one successful token, there is room for thousands upon thousands and as the technology advances, there will be various ways to crossover from one to the other seamlessly.
As I see Steem, it is going to hold a highly diversified portfolio of applications and services as well as a a host of communities that access and interact in a multitude of ways. Instead of visualizing Steem like an umbrella that protects them all, see it as the cabling that feeds them all, the pavement they walk upon.
Steem isn't there yet and there are many ways it can all go but, this is the potential value and why investing uncertainty bears such high gains, the unknown is where all the next big things lay. And if Steem happens to be a part of that big thing as I and likely a few others here predict, it is going to be a fundamental piece in the mainstreaming of not only Steem itself, but many other projects who will use the foundation and potential of the community to springboard their own projects from.
It might be blurry and grainy now, but all it takes is time and the patience to holder the shutter open long enough for the entire image to build.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
I will read your great article later. I leave a comment to find it...
Through the www.steeve.app interface you are able to star stories to read later, it is handy.
I love seeing long view perspective like this. People tend to be impatient with a platform that needs patience and consistency.
I figure that most people haven't recognized how much preparation things actually take, including where they are at this point themselves. Nearly no one gets rich overnight, nor into debt.
In photography holding a shutter open longer works when it's rather dark around. I believe it's a good analogy with Steem as no one trully knows where are we going yet. There are glimpses of bright light here and there but people in general are placing one foot in front of the other in the dark hoping that their chosen path will lead them some place they want to go.
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I see it in some way like a leap of faith that we ourselves can affect as while we step, we are also building the bridges and paths beneath each step.
Social media and the ability to earn are the 2 staples of the internet that everyone wants a part of.
Steem offers both
I am hoping that the applications can get their business together in time :)
If they don’t FB will fill the gap that is comming
Not many coins will survive this bear market which, no one really knows when and if will ever come to an end. But the ones that will,(I really hope steem to be one of them) are the ones that will "offer" something to people for every day use.
For example Dtube has many functioning flaws but over time it could become a giant. And a great way for people to sneak into steem.
There are dozens of apps around but not everything is really useful. But that's just me...All it takes is that killer app and then boom...
most coins don't have communities behind them, they have speculators. Communities go through more than passing travellers looking for a feed.
Yep, and all the small, medium and large that will spring up around it to leverage the success.
As with bitcoin, what doesn’t kill a project just makes it stronger so the survival of Steem backed by the community here and the continued decentralization and development forward will leave this past year to be but a blur in the years to come.
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a tiny little long forgotten speck... :D
Creative story!
I like the link to the waves.
Thank you :)
Nice bit of perspective. Time will tell where things go but most people here would share the view that crypto is the future. Its a question of which coins and when.
This is the question. For me I am taking a risk that a community coin that leverages people's attention and (many's) desire to be famous will do pretty well in an attention economy where they are already doing the same thing for free. When? maybe not tomorrow, Thursday perhaps. ;D
I would be ok with Friday morning also.
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I think Steem can and will become the gateway crypto. It has been the best way for me so far to earn crypto and to test out other platforms with almost 0 risk.
With the community getting onboard and "decentralizing" the project gives me even more hope for the future as more and more talent is attracted to the platform.
The biggest hurdle is the bad reputation that was gained when it was first started. I think a lot of crypto folks has since branded Steem as a bad egg and haven't given it a second chance, or never even checked it out in the first place.