Happy Birthday Steemit — We're Turning Older Together Once Again!
Steemit turns 2 today and it's also my 30th birthday. It feels amazing to come this far having faced a ton of ups and downs last year. I've been under the weather for the past few days and I'm on my vacation currently. But it gives me great joy to write this post and mark this moment on Steemit.
The past year has been incredible and I've managed a decent amount of community work. These initiatives including execution of Steemfest 2017 has led towards running my witness. I will continue to onboard and support users from India and I'm trying to solve a few challenges in this area. India is a big market and if it gets enough support on Steemit it could prove beneficial to the entire eco-system as we scale.
These past 3 months have brought so much of travel that it's almost unbelievable. I'm far away from home, in a North Eastern state of India as I write this post. I've organised several meetups and a couple of presentations on Steem blockchain in the past 3 months and many other activities in 2017. This has helped many users come onboard and use the platform and I'm in talks with a few investors as well.
A year ago the price at this time was 16 cents. Today we're at $2. It's a significant improvement from last year to now and I'm positive that a year from now the price would get even better. It's important to onboard new users here but the challenge currently is retention. This is because there's never enough VP to support everyone we onboard.
Communities and SMTs are expected to be the game changers. They are supposed to solve some of these issues. We need these features today but there's no certainty or timelines for launch of these projects.
In any case most of us who depend on Steemit will just have to wait it out. Meanwhile, I remain positive about the year ahead and I hope to do a lot more work towards building up our community and bringing people together from different parts of the world.
I will be home soon and will update on some current projects including my witness. I will also start a new contest for Steemit.Chat and maybe a second one as well. Meanwhile if you like the work I've done in the past two years you can vote my witness here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses. The link to my witness proposal is below.
I hope you continue to enjoy Steemit as much as I do. Happy Birthday to the Steem Blockchain and Steemit and I wish all the users here a great year ahead.
If you like my work kindly resteem it to your friends. You may also continue reading my recent posts which might interest you:
- Why You Should Vote For @firepower As Witness—Witness Campaign Post From India!
- India Steem Meetup #4—An AWESOME Meetup In New Delhi—India's Capital and 40+ Attended!
Happy Birthday to all the Steemit'ians today !
Thanks :)
It's awesome reaching this far in a short time. It shows how each of us is playing a part in the uprising of steemit. Every time we write content, upvote, resteem. We are making someone on the platform be grateful for joining steemit. You @firepower has shown an example in the enormous amount of activity you create on the platform. The multitudes of votes you give out to different users when they write great content has played a huge role in keeping users here and attracting more to join in.
Congratulations for your birthday.. And congratulations to steemit.
Looking to more and better years ahead.
Ya, it's awesome. Congratulations to all steemians.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEEMIT
Thank you for the kind words man! I appreciate your regular presence on my blogs. :)
Wish you many many happy returns of the day @firepower . You are an inspiration to many of us Indians. What a coincidence that you made your entry into steemit on your Birthday!
I know that many investors are needed to make steemit better. I talked to few people and asked them to invest in cryptocurrency,especially steemit. But they don't seem to understand anything. All that they have with them is Money in millions. By using your influence and experience,I think you will be able to attract some investors from our country.
We can do somethings together. Although its been two years,still steemit is in its infant phase when it comes to India. Supporting contents in our regional languages having translations in English will do wonders. We some keralites are thinking of creating Malayalam contents with translations atleast once in a month. We active steemit users are very very very few in numbers. We can do something revolutionary if we work together.
Again happy birthday @firepower and @steemit . In btw I have selected you as my voting proxy. Hope you can do great as a witness.
Ya sir, @firepower is always inspiration for us. Happy birthday you too @sathyasankar.
Its not my birthday @ajay03
It is our second birthday on steemit, I mean. Sir.
These are some very good ideas that I think can be addressed to some extent when communities arrive. Thank you for the wishes and stopping by on my blog.
Happy birthday sir, may you live long and prosper. Looking forward to your even greater achievements in the years to come. More firepower to you.
Thank you very much! :)
Whoah...
Happy 30th birthday to you, with persisitence, courage and determination, the world is at your feet for the taking.
Happy birthday to Steemit too.
Stay great as you progress.
Thank you for the wishes and stopping by. :)
Happy Birthday!! Have a great year. I love it that you get to travel a lot. May you continue achieving success in whatever you plan or aim for. Have a great year.
Thank you :D
I have been following you for a while now, and it has been pretty impressive to see all the efforts you put in and how helpful you have been. I can only wish you strength, as i stand, rapt in awe of your commendable and tireless efforts. Well done.
Happy birthday to you @firepower
Your influence goes higher than a tower
Your efforts will bud as a flower
Keep going stronger and never lower
Enjoy your day.
Thanks for all the kind words bro! Hope you have a great year ahead!
You are most welcome. Thanks, i sure will, and you too, enjoy the best always.
Happy birthday 😃
Thank you :D
Happy Birthday @firepower and happy Birthday @steemit we will enjoy together...we will grow together..
Thanks dude! :)
lovely post dear @firepower