I feel the future is bright (speaking as a tech n00b) - like seriously

raymondspeaks (69)in #steemit • 7 years ago (edited)

There was a time when I had 14 bitcoins. I joined the bitcoin rush at the time they were taking a nosedive from $1k, the very first bump. I remember when my friend introduced me to them; he was bitching about how he had went all in on Bitcoin and now he was having to sell because they were falling faster than my underwear as a teenager. I remember thinking

"I want in with this"

At the peak of my bitcoin ownerage it was at the time they freefalled to around $200. I had 14 of them and I had just exited out of the whole Zenminer escapade because I was seeing the cracks, and I was super thankful that I bolted when I did. Sadly, I had to sell the rest off for food and bills, because, well, we were going bankrupt at the time. Damned that I didn't stick with them. Oh well, life, you know?

Anyway, I still had play holdings in a few other investments that I wasn't likely to get rid of anytime soon, which helped me keep my ear to the ground when it came to what was happening in the industry. Somehow I happened across Steemit one fateful evening and the rest has literally been history.

Steemit sent me to Germany that year after receiving two Ned upvotes and jumping all over my room in utter disbelief. At the time they were worth $1.6k a pop.

Steemit has reinvented my belief in content creation to the extent that I do believe the world is our oyster. I'm no tech genius, but I am a writer, and I'm usually a guy that sends in my content to popular Magazines only to be told "this will give you great exposure." In author terms this is basically, "we will hoarde your work and not pay you a single penny." If you're earning $0.01 then that's more than most websites pay for their content, so essentially you're earning more than some established authors -- we do it for the enjoyment too, so there's that!

We're still in beta, there's a long way to go until we start making big dents in common place mainstream, but it's a start. I can see us completely reforming the way people sell their content to other places, and also value their content more. I have worked with Authors in the past that have been SO picky where their work was submitted and how it was displayed. Yet I understand it now, because art has value, and writing is essentially an art.

We've seen absolutely amazing projects come out from here; one that I'm involved with, steembloggers, which is probably the most user-friendly discord room I've been in so far, partly because it's not stacked with people, and the other part because it's warm and friendly. There are rules to follow, but alas, everywhere has rules! Even Steemit!

What next?

Well, SBD is at $11, so there's that! A post that makes $20 is actually making $100, way to go us! Then there's Smart Media Tokens being launched in early 2018, and I swear, this will be big for me. Big for me in the sense that I'm a publisher. I have a magazine, and I'll be looking to create a whitepaper and tokenize my content. I get around 600-1000 visits per day on my Magazine and can you imagine the ways in which I could integrate my tokens in with my content AND create a buzz about Steemit and crypto?

People will question it, and the questions will come thick and fast, so I'll have to create a Q&A section, perhaps even an entire token-side section, and I'll lead them straight back here, and thus, the cycle repeats itself. I doubt I'll be the only author doing this! I'm sure there are plenty that switch between magazines/blogs and steemit that will be dribbling at the mouth to make a little bit of impact on the way content creators are used and abused in the industry.

So for me the future is brighter than a thousand watt lightbulb. I can see amazing things happening with 2018, with bitcoin surging past $20k and people being able to break ranks of the monotony of full-time work. Unless you enjoy that sort of thing of course, no judgements! :)