This! You speak my mind @schattenjaeger. Upvoted and Followed you.
I'm late for the Crypto party, but I became interested because of the same reason you were in it and that the blockchain technology can move us past the greedy fed, and of course it was Satoshi's vision when he conceived bitcoin ( that the code and mathematics will decide the fate of the currency and not some corrupt institution) . The sooner I found out the hard truth, I looked at other crypto and found NEM and Steemit. Between them I found NEM to be very secretive of their current update for Catapult and believe them to be overvalued for weeks now. Now I know I'm a little late to the Steem party as well but I'm still gonna stick around because I think it's got a lot going for it. Fast Transaction time, ease of use, and massive potential for mainstream adoption. I believe we have something special with Steem, regardless of what will Steem's value be in 5 yrs doesn't concern me because I know somehow it won't fall to the same pitfalls the top 2 currencies have now. I'm not a hater and I do own a small portion of my stash with them and I believe bitcoin as well as ethereum are both on the move to resolving this scalability issues. I believe that the crypto space will be more than enough to handle few successful Cryptocurrency not just Bitcoin, Ether and Steem but some other potential Cryptocoin we haven't even heard of yet.
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Can't help it bud. It's always gonna be about money. It's USDs,JPYs & CNYs now as they are the money. Soon it will be BTCs, ETHs & LTCs as they be the future money. The sheep don't care about Financial Revolution hell I doubt they even know that is , they just care about the money they make when it goes up up up. Then when this goes all crashing down they be quick to sell hehe...