Wow. Explaining Steemit to people is 1000x easier than explaining Bitcoin or any Blockchain project thus far.... dare I say 500% increases on thier way?
I have been explaining and pitching Bitcoin, Altcoins & the Blockchain in general for years... and NEVER has it been so easy to get people to understand the value.
Let me make this clear; I have been an avid Bitcoin supporter since 2010 when it finally "clicked" for me, explained further in my bio, I started telling everyone I could about Bitcoin, and how it could help their life improve, their freedoms improve, and in general help the world get out of this draconian financial world we live in where everything and anything is subject to taxes, fees & crappy laws. For years I preached and preached and poured my heart into spreading Bitcoin, I surfed the news multiple times daily, checked the price FAR too many times during my work day and in general just wasted vast amounts of hours trying to "better the world with Bitcoin" or so I thought....
After a while I learned more than I taught, and what I learned was: Bitcoin is hard... and average folks don't actually need it.
Once it became glaringly obvious that word of mouth wasn't good enough to spread Bitcoin, I actually needed to give it away to show people how it worked, I must have given away a full Bitcoin (roughly $300 or so) among my friends and family, only to end up with 2-3 friends who still use it, and that's mostly just for gambling on sports and such, I was dissapointed again. (We lost huge on the Seahawks Superbowl last year too lol)
I had given up, I was bored of bothering people to use Bitcoin, a good product sells it self. And Bitcoin just wasn't doing that..
This is when I ventured out into the altcoin scene around 2014 big time and invested in everything from #Darkcoin (#Dash), #Litecoin, #Monero, #Ethereum and so on.. and yet I still wasn't satisfied.. Not a single coin out there had a proper value proposition that was simple and practical.
Then came Steemit... oh boy..
I sat around looking at this website the first time I found it and knew it would be big, just wasn't sure how big, or how soon... or if Synereo might be a better version, but once I signed up and poked around I decided it was worth a shot and I was off... I started doing as much research as I could (within Steemit obviously) on how to make the post of this platform, one I felt comfortable, I started organizing my thoughts on my brand, my writing style & my overall direction. I am finally figuring it all out and getting started. But in the meantime, time to tell my friends!
....Fast forward to today (literally 2 hours ago..)
I went down for a meeting regarding a website with a friend of mine today who works at Ancient's Arts Tattoo in Renton, Washington. Shortly after we ended up on the subject of Steemit, (mind you these people know I'm into Bitcoin and have heard my speal a few times, yet do not use it, because it's not practical for them) and within 15 minutes I had the entire shop interested and Naomi has already signed up and posted an intro!
Oh and ps. Amanda does great tattoos too, heres my shoulder tattoo!
https://steemit.com/@tattooerhenry is one of the 3 tattoo artists as well. Give the man a follow and he'll be posting an intro sooner or later with awesome pictures of his portfolio and life!
Thank you for your insight. I share the same experience that explaining crypto currencies like Bitcoin, Nxt, Dash or others are not easy. And I share your thought about the potential freedom it brings with it. I see steem.it a great and very potential platform that inherits these ideas. But I do not share your point where this makes Bitcoin or other Blockchain technologies useless. Bitcoin invented the idea, is working for years and will be the Gold of this technology and some of the other currencies bring great ideas and inventions into this field (I think steem.it would not exist without their experiences). So, do not underestimate other approaches aswell ;)
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Lol 3 hours after making this post Steem is up to 100% increase in 24 hours... wow..
Undoubtedly steemit has given a draft to the world of the criptocoins , there does that the people see more rapid and without money loses that the world of the criptomonedas is royal, that advances and that is the future, has opened a door for many persons and this community will grow and grow more and more, doing that this world every time is more an acquaintance and that the use of the criptocins is more common.
Regards!
"Bitcoin is hard... and average folks don't actually need it"
with only this phrase your post value should be 0 ...
I know. Like Fyrstikkens' song said. Bitcoin is some leet underground hacker shit. And let's face it. The regular public isn't into it. Until now. With steemit. Being paid to write articles here. Will make steemit blow up. Twitter is going to have to take notice.