"I believe our world desperately needs Good News."
- Rob Bell -

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What's my excuse?

I did not notice this because I was in the middle of promoting Steem for the WIN in the recent Netcoins contest...

Amazing News! ~ Image courtesy of sandid

What news am I speaking of?

When I first heard of the Netcoins contest, I published this article on Steemit to encourage all y'all to vote in the contest. At that time, all I really knew was that Netcoins had fifty-some retail locations in Canada.

Well, that's good, I thought.

This will benefit my fellow Steemians to the north, and it's "free," given a little bit of social network community elbow grease...

Then I learned of Netcoins expected expansion to almost 200,000 locations in more than fifty countries on six continents. Very cool!

Even then, I missed something.

Because of its oppressive and draconian financial regulations, I never expected any of that expansion to occur in the United States. The U.S. Federal government is absolutely the worst when it comes to anything remotely resembling financial privacy or freedom.

So I was not expecting to have any direct, local, here in California USA benefit from the Netcoins listing. But I still expected the listing to be a grand benefit to us all in terms of Steem awareness and easy access.

U.S. Exposure for Steem! Image courtesy of Thomas Breher

Imagine my shock and surprise,

when today I learned that Netcoins is aggressively moving into the U.S. also! You can read the release here:

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Netcoins Launches in 42 US States, Effective Immediately

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Way to go, Netcoins!

This means that it may not be long before I'm able to stop in at the local convenience store and top off my Steem account, or use Steem to buy a cup of coffee.

This also will make it easy to send cash—read Steem—to friends or relatives elsewhere in the country and around the world. If they can get to a Netcoins retail location, they will be able to "cash out" any Steem that I send them.

This Netcoins thing...

I think it's turning out even better than we hoped!

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~FIN~

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