Observations of a fairly noobish Steemer.

My time spent on Steemit has increased lately. It has been my first, major, tour round the place. The Community seems great! A software system seems to be evolving, nicely, as the community grows and evolves. That is unfair, as due to the Open Source nature of the Steemit software, the programmers are a major part of this community as well!

Being a blockchain aficionado, it is now the time for me to ask you to think good thoughts, tropical islands and private jets for Satoshi Nakamoto who without his White Paper this would be another FaceBook. Thank you.

There are probably as many different types of people using steemit as there are people using steemit. Pigeonholing is not my forte. The same could be said by those holding crypto. But maybe, just maybe there could be simularities, preferences, what-have-you's that would not be so pigeonholing if discussed.

In a funny way it just occurred to me that there is a bit of both in me. Probably the same for many others.

One question which separates the pack is when asked, " What brought you to crypto?"

Allow me to explain what brought me to the crypto space. Better still, who brought me kicking and screaming. The person who gave me the intro and myself go back many years. The first time rolling a d20 was at his place. But this story picks up about 25 years from our first meeting. He was staying at my place at the time. A few others lived there as well. They paid rent, sharing internet, pizza and beer. He was in his room pumping out bitcoins on graphics cards. Anytime he would catch us sitting he would extole the virtues of the BTC. Sharing pizza, lending him a credit card for online purchases, etc., would have him begging us for our own good to take BTC as payment. Humoring him (or so we thought) we largely agreed. Just before the $1500 crash was the first time the value of what had been given to me was understood. After the $1500 crash, with blood still on the streets, it seemed time to buy. It turns out it was.

So my first motivations were not for investing in something to get rich quick. It was supporting a friend with his crazy hobbies and believing as a programmer that the idea had great potential... but it wasn't money.

That was then and now is now. My main motivation is still of the political/program nature. Otherwise it would have been wise to take the money and run. It does make me happy to see that BTC/BCH has increased in value. So at this point there is a bit of both about me.

The same can, perhaps, be said about the members of this community. There are posts; or comments to posts more so; that are making an appeal for followers and some agreement of liking. It all seems very clinical, like a math club's keg night.

There are others here with something to say. Letting the gods decide if it may have worth.

It was a good feeling when first seeing that steemit was Open Source. Being an old programmer, both in length of time AND age, perhaps this blockchain will reveal itself to me. It would be nice to have a secondary friends lists don't you think? Feel free to comment with any other modifications to the software that you would like to see.

Anyway, no matter the reason that brings you here, it's just nice that you are here. That this community is here. That another step in building a decentralized society is here.