Hi everyone!

It has been 60 days since I joined Steemit and being active (as much as my time can allow me), in here I have realized that this plat form lies GREAT POTENTIAL if we (humans) can collaborate with one another because we are ALL PIONEERS in this magnificent birth of the blockchain world for Steemit.

I also realized that through different channels in Discord there are a lot of nay-sayers “prophesying” that Steemit is going to be plundered into the abyss and be annihilated; but hey, let’s be totally honest about it, this is a cyber space platform that relies on (electric) POWER ; even Bitcoin will DIE if that happens. So let us all take a deep breath and except the fact that nothing in this world can be permanent. The only thing is we need to move as it moves, and look beyond and make full use of its current potential.

18 years ago if Jack Ma thinks Internet was a sham and does not see its potential to elevate the conventional centralized merchandise ecosystem into a sort-of decentralized platform for small SME to step up into the big players economic playground, we wouldn’t have the world largest Internet purchase infrastructure at hand that allows free trade possible internationally.

This too, happened to Tao Bao 14 years ago.

And for Air BnB 9 years ago.

And for Groupon , 8 years ago.

All these companies provided a great platform for end users and SME to have an equal playfield to compete for a way to be self-sustaining (in some ways) entrepreneurs and easy access for home shoppers. Some who prefers real feel of retail over seeing through screen may detest to that idea, but we cannot deny the fact that such integrated infrastructure is actually competing and even killing off retails at the same time.

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But as I see in Steemit, it provides a whole new aspect of “integration”, instead of a platform that only distinctively draws a line between buyers and sellers, this platform is formed based on “generating income” first before e-commerce. A very good example is the

• Steem Shop

It allows content creators and real artists (and crafters like myself) an alternate platform to offer our products and services. Not only that, it allows potential shoppers to be “self-sustainable” by “earning” through their own content and getting agreements from the community of steemit.

What else can Steemit do?

How about trading without relying trading platforms among willing buyers and sellers of Steem / Steem Dollars?

I have been hearing so many complains about how poloniex sucks because they locked up Steem / Steem dollars and they were not able to trade it to BTC. And usually they have to do that because they need to convert it to fiat currency for practical use later (which many more companies are emerging to help make bridging to Visa, a major centralized banking system possible).

I also noticed a lot of people actually invest into Steem Power by:

1. Depositing fiat currency into a wallet that supports crypto currency, say, Wirex.
2. buys BTC
3. Option1: ports BTC into places like Poloniex and converts into steem, move Steem out into Steemit
   Or Option2: use services like BlockTrades to convert BTC to Steem / Steem Dollars into Steemit
4. Power up.

That’s at least 4 steps done and 4 interest fees paid to get there.

Why not search for individuals (who so happened are willing to invest into Steemit) to trade DIRECTLY ?

Individuals who acts like small decentralized nodes that is available to trade? Be it buying or selling?
I have a very real case scenario happened to me just the past week.

1. My housemate who does not have a steady income to pay up our shared utility bills, was able to pay off a small portion of his share of electric bill to me via some of his Steem Dollars he earned from his first post (and come up with the rest of the utility bill share with fiat currency). This helped him to be able to have an alternative way to earn and spend it practically while promoting his JKD dojo.
   

2. @fatpandadesign recently was low in cash here in Kuala Lumpur when he had some technical financial issues transferring his USD to MYR; and within my ability I was able to trade some Steem Dollars with him and passed him cash, minimizing waiting time and International Bank conversion when he needed emergency cash. (He might probably write about it in the future).
   

I am not saying I am some millionaire that has a lot of money to “throw” around (I am not! You can read my mission below as proof), but because I see there could be more potential to Steemit I was willing to invest a little bit more (you can see the screen capture above) into Steemit (at this point is the Steem Dollars) and skipped off ALL the transaction fees with my local willing traders. Take it as a capital stake. And besides:

All investments HAVE RISKS. Be it in Poloniex or Real Person Trading. Wouldn't you agree?

Since the risk is there, if you are going to invest in Steemit, why not look for like-minded local friends to trade, instead of going through trading platforms that could screw you from time to time?

Wait! You might think this is kind of risky, because there is no guarantee that such idea could work!

I totally agree with you; that is why from the scenario above, these two are individuals are my friends (in real life) who supports the same idea (and hopefully they will do the same for me when I need it help in the future). And I also stated LOCAL FRIENDS.

For those who has started to (really) talk to me before will realise that this is something that COULD work if there is team work.
How about you? Are you willing to bank in an idea that test both the Steemit platform and human community stability; or do you think hoard and isolate is the best choice scenario for you?

I think I read somewhere before where it quoted,

and economy is not an economy if there is no buy and sell (trading)

Why not take this out of the usual trading platform and elevate it to real-time scenario? If you don’t feel like it you can always quickly trade your SDB off back into BTC and keep it aside.

Otherwise, I do not see the real purpose of Steem Dollars existing at all in Steemit; and maybe this could also elevate the value of Steem Dollar too.

What are your thoughts? I thoroughly welcome brainstorming!

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