It's your repeated requests in your youtube vids to come to steem @cryptovestor that actually got me over here!
When you say that most people are interested in price, that actually includes me wrt BTC etc. The tech is awesome but there's not enough pain in the west around banking to make the tech as amazing as it is, a necessity.
On the other hand I'm into steem for the tech. I'm learning that it's not a FB replacer but it's still an amazing platform. And it's got me interested enough to be diving into the cli and more.
The transparency and decentralisation of trust that the blockchain platforms bring though are great for a little competition for entrenched institutions and government. One of the issues we have with government is that even though there are parties involved, government is still a monopoly so competition from such technologies is a gift to the people.
@newsflash you've made my day. Thank you for your generous vote.