This was meant to be my steemiversar post, but now its my goodbye

Tuesday 3 pm – 14 Aug 2018
Wow, so its been a year already.
Time has just flown.
In the past 12 months, I've seen the rise and fall of bitcoin, the fall and fall and fall and fall and rise and fall and fall again of steem. An attack on the steem blockchain, byteballs scams, the birth of master-node coins
the dumping of all the btc earned by those scammy master-node coins, and the loss of friends and family.

When I first heard about steemit, I thought, ooh, a proof of brain coin.
Finally something I might be able to earn.
Sadly, I was wrong.
Steemit isn't about proof of life, proof of brain, etc.
sadly, steemit is the same as any other coin out there.
Its proof of wallet.
The haejins of the platform showed me this.
And the Jerry Banfields.
Like, really.
How can a video of a guy sucking his own dick, make a thousand $
or 2 pictures with a couple lines a hundred, 10 times a day.

And someone that points out the fact that YouTube supports terrorism more than the people that are against it?

It just doesn't make sense. I've seen so much potential talent quit this platform.
Maybe they came in with the wrong attitude. That the things they were sharing were important to the people. That the truth needs to be told.
But shouldn't a documented, with sources, 2000 word essay, make more money, than, a cat with 3 word text?

Yeah, I'm looking at you, I can has cheezburger plagiarisers.
If I wanted memes, id join a meme site.
Id google 'funny cat memes'
if I want real news, ill come to the blockchain. Ill come to where the media isn't muted 9 or at least I thought it was immutable – turns out, if u have enough money, and u don't like what someone say, u just flag them to oblivion. Wipe them out. Make them invisible.

That to me shows this place is still the same as the fake news sites we see in mainstream media.
Shouldn't this site be about everyone having their say? If nothing else, to open up communications. Debates. On taboo subjects.
Shouldn't we be able to use this platform, to change humanity?
Imagine what the haejins and the other whales on this platform, could do, if, just for a week, they pointed their up-votes at Venezuelans.

Or Nigerians.
The people that cant afford to live.
Hell. Look in your own back yard. Look at how many of the veterans that defended your country. The people that have ensured your freedoms to have your say, and look at how many are on the street.
Not sure the exact count, as I am offline whilst I type this, but, I imagine the odds are staggering.

Hell, I'm in Australia, and we have a population that's almost hit the 25 million mark.
And we have 22,000 kids sleeping on the street each year. Hell, I was one of them from 2001-2009.
and as weird as it sounds, it was better than how i'm living now.
Now I have an income of $300/w and my rent and elec is $275.
that leaves me $25/w to eat.
And it's hard.
So I post. Day after day, without fail.
Its hard, but I have to do it.
Or I will not survive.
But, as hard as my struggle is, and I joke, that i'm eating ramen for nearly every meal.
But yet, I am thankful. Because, as hard as my struggle is, I can AFFORD ramen.
And that's why I get pissy at these whales that self vote for $100 EVERY COMMENT.
I get it, you want your ROI. But u get that, if u spread that love, u might change a life, right?
That a simple $5 up-vote on someones post, is enough to feed them and their family for a week, right?

Where is the humanity?

It annoys me that, bitcoin was a fuck you to the monopoly on money that the banks had. We were sick of the 1% having all the money. But look around people. Its happening here too. Different money, same politics.

I see people asking 'when moon'? All the time. So I ask them. Do u have active sells? 'yes'. Are they in the next 1% of the sell wall? Yes. OK, so, maybe move them up 10%. stop filling the sell wall. One cant moon, if there is a wall.

I also ask, do u have a buy? No
wtf why not?
If I want a coin, I put in a small buy, at the top of the list. I want coins. Sell to me.
Another buy replaces it. By 1 sat.
no. I up my price 10 sat. u want it more than me, u pay more than 1 sat more.
Lowly the price goes up.
Little by little
Eventually, someone sells to me.
I put that coin I bought, boom, 50% more than I paid (buy 1k, sell 1.5k)
I do this 20 times a day ( at least I did before 'the incident')
I started trading in 2016. I was collecting 5c here, 1 c there, every 5 min on some sites, hourly on others. Doesn't sound like much. But December 2017, all those drips here and there, if not for the shit that happened, id have 20k USD in my pocket. I'd have cashed out by the time it had dropped to 15k, and id probably have been all in again by the time it hit 8k.

Anyways, bus ride over, so ill maybe continue this at a later date. This is 20 minutes of my 'disconnected brain'
amazing what u can accomplish when you're offline for an hour.
Try it. U may surprise yourself.

Pony out.

PS I never did get to finish this post.
PPS never will.

Bye steemians. Enjoy your circle jerk without me.
no doubt this post will earn me flags on all my previous posts.
but at this point, it doesnt matter anymore.