I see I adjusted your vision prescription a little bit. Now you see things you didn't see before, and probably wish you had never seen. :) That's what us Anarchists do... we knock each other on the head and teach each other to see horrible new things....
Being pessimistic... I actually think we make people see the world in an absolutely beautiful and freeing way. It sure does make the horrible really stick out like a hot body on an infrared screen.
Just curious, how long had you been in crypto/bitcoin before steem?
I actually saw Bitcoin when it was $0.005/coin but my family and I were poor. I thought "Damn this is a cool idea", yet I also thought it likely the government would intervene and kill it. So $20 would feed my family. Yes I am kicking myself.
I decided to try mining a couple of times off and on, but I was way too late to that game too so it wasn't worth it.
I actually have a friend @kaptainkrayola who makes steemshovel.com and he was talking to me about Ethereum Mining and telling me some places to go.
So I was working on setting up an ETH miner and had just setup my bittrex.com account and I happened to sort % growth column and STEEM was at the top at 120%.
I said what the hell is that? Wandered over to steemit, created an account, realized it was another bitcoin type situation. I could grasp the potential right away but I didn't grasp the potential of the blockchain and being able to build many things on top of it for about a week. I told @kaptainkrayola about it and he was into crypto and was kicking himself for not knowing about it before me. Pretty much got half the people on our little private slack to join up.
So I'd say I've never been very active in crypto other than as a lurker until Steem.
True, but at the same time, we are the only ones who see legitimate hope and a real, bright future that can be achieved.
All we can really do is laugh at things like this. We literally have no control. Jury nullification, activism, cop filming...while all noble causes, they rarely have any lasting impact. And sure I know another anarchist is going to come along and point out a law that's been overturned, or a bad cop that was arrested, but that all means literally nothing in the grand scheme. They write laws quicker than any act we can do through the state-prescribed playbook.
We can only build a new world. Through crypto. Through improving our relationships, our communication skills, our social networking abilites. Through each other. It's not a battle, or a slog through the mud. It's just how we live, even with a boot on our throats.
I find anarchists often resent the world, but we are the only ones that can actually fix it.
We can only build a new world. Through crypto. Through improving our relationships, our communication skills, our social networking abilites. Through each other. It's not a battle, or a slog through the mud. It's just how we live, even with a boot on our throats.
I find anarchists often resent the world, but we are the only ones that can actually fix it.
Steem and steemit have restored HOPE where I didn't see much for awhile.
I was totally gearing up and telling my family the goal would be that someone with the things we know survive, and live into whatever the future holds.
Mainly because all the avenues to fight back kept getting closed, made illegal, etc.
Then Steem came along, and man there is some major HOPE in what this could potentially do. They could kill steemit.com, but hopefully the blockchain is resilient enough they can't kill it. Open sourcing steemit.com it can pull off the hydra like action.
I actually saw Bitcoin when it was $0.005/coin but my family and I were poor. I thought "Damn this is a cool idea", yet I also thought it likely the government would intervene and kill it. So $20 would feed my family. Yes I am kicking myself.
Yea, I'm sorta in the same boat. My cousin (the one who got me into anarchism in the post I made) told me about it in the summer of 2011. I thought it was cute, but dismissed it outright. I saw it again at like $10 and actually looked into it a bit. Then dismissed it again. At $50, same thing. Didn't want to be the guy that bought at THAT price. XD
I finally bit the bullet and started buying in the winter of 2014, when it hit the "bottom" of $600. ::eye roll:: I then proceeded to lose like 90% of my first 2 bitcoin by going all-in on Cryptcoin and XCoin in my first couple months. XD
After that, I regrouped, committed to learning how to actually make it grow. I now mine, trade, buy, anything and everything for Bitcoin. I have no doubts in my mind where it's heading over the next 10 years, and just like Steemit, it will catch the world by surprise.
As far as other coins I'm watching? Only one, really. Zcash. Highly recommend you check that out. I'm not shilling either, it hasn't launched yet. :)
I see I adjusted your vision prescription a little bit. Now you see things you didn't see before, and probably wish you had never seen. :) That's what us Anarchists do... we knock each other on the head and teach each other to see horrible new things....
Being pessimistic... I actually think we make people see the world in an absolutely beautiful and freeing way. It sure does make the horrible really stick out like a hot body on an infrared screen.
I actually saw Bitcoin when it was $0.005/coin but my family and I were poor. I thought "Damn this is a cool idea", yet I also thought it likely the government would intervene and kill it. So $20 would feed my family. Yes I am kicking myself.
I decided to try mining a couple of times off and on, but I was way too late to that game too so it wasn't worth it.
I actually have a friend @kaptainkrayola who makes steemshovel.com and he was talking to me about Ethereum Mining and telling me some places to go.
So I was working on setting up an ETH miner and had just setup my bittrex.com account and I happened to sort % growth column and STEEM was at the top at 120%.
I said what the hell is that? Wandered over to steemit, created an account, realized it was another bitcoin type situation. I could grasp the potential right away but I didn't grasp the potential of the blockchain and being able to build many things on top of it for about a week. I told @kaptainkrayola about it and he was into crypto and was kicking himself for not knowing about it before me. Pretty much got half the people on our little private slack to join up.
So I'd say I've never been very active in crypto other than as a lurker until Steem.
True, but at the same time, we are the only ones who see legitimate hope and a real, bright future that can be achieved.
All we can really do is laugh at things like this. We literally have no control. Jury nullification, activism, cop filming...while all noble causes, they rarely have any lasting impact. And sure I know another anarchist is going to come along and point out a law that's been overturned, or a bad cop that was arrested, but that all means literally nothing in the grand scheme. They write laws quicker than any act we can do through the state-prescribed playbook.
We can only build a new world. Through crypto. Through improving our relationships, our communication skills, our social networking abilites. Through each other. It's not a battle, or a slog through the mud. It's just how we live, even with a boot on our throats.
I find anarchists often resent the world, but we are the only ones that can actually fix it.
Steem and steemit have restored HOPE where I didn't see much for awhile.
I was totally gearing up and telling my family the goal would be that someone with the things we know survive, and live into whatever the future holds.
Mainly because all the avenues to fight back kept getting closed, made illegal, etc.
Then Steem came along, and man there is some major HOPE in what this could potentially do. They could kill steemit.com, but hopefully the blockchain is resilient enough they can't kill it. Open sourcing steemit.com it can pull off the hydra like action.
Yea, I'm sorta in the same boat. My cousin (the one who got me into anarchism in the post I made) told me about it in the summer of 2011. I thought it was cute, but dismissed it outright. I saw it again at like $10 and actually looked into it a bit. Then dismissed it again. At $50, same thing. Didn't want to be the guy that bought at THAT price. XD
I finally bit the bullet and started buying in the winter of 2014, when it hit the "bottom" of $600. ::eye roll:: I then proceeded to lose like 90% of my first 2 bitcoin by going all-in on Cryptcoin and XCoin in my first couple months. XD
After that, I regrouped, committed to learning how to actually make it grow. I now mine, trade, buy, anything and everything for Bitcoin. I have no doubts in my mind where it's heading over the next 10 years, and just like Steemit, it will catch the world by surprise.
As far as other coins I'm watching? Only one, really. Zcash. Highly recommend you check that out. I'm not shilling either, it hasn't launched yet. :)
Happy to follow @kaptainkrayola, btw. Steem shovel's a cool project:
https://steemit.com/steem/@kaptainkrayola/announcing-steemshovel-steem-search-engine-pre-alpha
Just curious, how long had you been in crypto/bitcoin before steem?
Replied to myself accidentally as far as how long using crypto. You'll need to search for it.