hi sexymatty, just catching up with your post, i really like this one, but i can only give you a 90% upvote, there are many other issues that you have not address nor have you factored in with your journey in Steemit

here is just a few:

• incremental improvement (I can think of half a dozen things you can do to improve the readability and promotion of the exercize challenge that has not been tried yet), you have to admit, we all could do things better

• having skin in the game: a person from the 1st world country with means, should try to invest into Steem. If one was to keep saying, i have this and that crypto investment, but don't want to put any of their time and resources Pre-Steem into Steem is speaks of a lack of commitment to others who have done so, it's the 'like respect like' mindset scenario, even the Orcas and Whales here that have mined Steem have put in monies that is pre-Steem when they bought very expensive hardware to mine Steem in the early days with no guarantee of return (honestly when Steem was $0.09 someone calculated that it was cheaper to buy Steem than to buy the hardware to compete with the top 6 miners). Note: As a Steem investor, I'm an exception, not the norm to that rule. I happen to believe in inclusivity, and I consider myself reasonably open-minded, and you have to respect that other people's prerogatives is reflected in their upvotes, and like it or not it has to be respected by you as well as we all live and piss and drink from this ocean called Steem.

• the great importance, and prestige and recognition that comes with experimentations - in fact one could crassly summarize proof of brain as a merely creativitiy in experimentation, how fast one experiments, how fast one is willing to make mistakes, and how fast one wants to commit, give first without knowing if they will get back....determines success.

• playing safe, i think the early days of earning purely from post is over, i think we have now entered a hybrid of investment and return vehicle as well as a growing ecosystem. An investor can grow their pot at around 40% per annum, but even after 5 years, it's a stunning 200% gain without negating fees, flags, and inefficiencies, however if Steem goes from $3 to $100, that's a 30x growth, that's a 30,000% gain, all investors will need the education that some portion of the return re-invested into the ecosystem will bring significantly greater return...I'm not here to address it, just pointing out the missing 10% your post could have earned ;)

Well done....Muuaaahh!