It happened.
I powered up.
I split my steemit earnings in half, exchanging 50% for litecoin in anticipation for SegWit, and the other 50% right back into steemit as STEEM POWER.
Now, I have 1,000+ STEEM POWER
Am I officially an minnow? I don't know -- still trying to figure things out here.
But, in a way, I like discovering this place as I use it.
No tutorial.
No training wheels.
Things just seem to happen.
It reminds me of the untamed outdoors when I was a kid in the 80s, where you would leave the house at sun up and return at sun down with scrapes, bumps, and memories; or surfing the internet in the 90s when people had personal websites filled with dangerous and deeply personal text and spinning .gifs.
In any case, I thank you for having me, steemit -- you nutty bastards! It's been a real treat so far and I look forward to so much more as the months in this crazy year fly by.
Take care and shadilay.
You have 2.2 Million Vests right now.
That means you became a minnow at just under 500 steem.
Next Stop -- Dolphin at around 4500 steem!
Plankton = up to 1M VEST
Minnow = 1 to 10M VESTS
Dolphin = 10 to 100M VESTS
Orca = 100 - 1000M VESTS
Whale = more than 1000M VESTS
Lol, I didn't there's a plankton category..
What's a VEST?
Thanks, btw
I don't quite know how to explain it, but you earn "vests" with each bit of Steem.
Look here to see how many you have:
https://steemd.com/@shayne
Wow... That's a whole lot of things that I don't understand, haha. Well, I guess I should get vested up!
Congrats Shayne!!!
Frank
YEAH!
:D
I picture every time you do your videos, when you look straight into the camera. Like you are initiating an iris scan to officially vlog on Steemit. And how you end it with your finger swiping down like its a touch screen.
Keeping Steeming On Shanye,
Frank
Huh... neat!
Part of brand building on YouTube is using your intro/outro to do consistent things that people can interpret in their own way and create an evolving culture. The Hodge Twins get this better than anyone. Also PewDiePie with "Haaooooowws it goin', Bros? My name's PeeeeewwwwDi'PIE" and "Brofist", and Styxhexenhammer666 who starts every video with "Alright YouTube" and ends with "That's about all... peace out."
But I do like the idea that my videos are somehow very highly secure and need to be started with a retina scan, hah!
Love your two analogies, can relate to both.
GL on your journey. I am about to reach 1k earned today as well.
Congrats to you as well!
Very nice and apt description lol. I miss netscape and geocities.
I guess whoever stays are the early-adopter types who can bear with little hand-holding and niceties atm. Can't wait for the ui / ux be improved for mass adoption in the future, but I guess that'll depend on our inputs / activities as a community too.
Just the other day my wife had an online prompt suggest she open the website in firefox. I thought, what is this, 2005? lol. Yeah, netscape, geocities, newgrounds, ebaums world, livejournal... the internet was a very different place back then.
As far as steemit goes: I figure if I can build a following, get posts with an average of 100 likes and roughly $10 payouts NOW, then I'll be pretty well set when the ui improvements come. And it seems that I'm well on my way to achieving that goal. :D
Congrats on your milestone! I'm just a little bit of SP away from becoming a Dolphin. Whoop whoop ! We will be getting there ;)
Thanks!
You are way ahead of me :O
No worry's just keep steemin and you'll get there ;) Or invest just a little bit more! :D
Very nice. Succes on the future!
Yes, for us all!
That's really cool @shayne
Thanks! :D
I also love the organic nature of the platform, as it grows around us.
Indeed. And with it being open source, you have folks making developments on their own and presenting them to the community for approval, so we get what we want. It's a very interesting system and I'm really jazzed to see how it'll develop.
This stuff is addictive. We won't worry about the Steem price. When people catch on to what Steemit can do it will go up. You are a pioneer!
It certainly IS addictive! I find myself spending about two hours every morning before really starting work (game dev) on steemit, curating, checking commissions, seeing what my friends have been up to. It's a great thing.
I'm not super concerned with the price, but of course in another way I also am concerned lol. Being a trained Buddhist makes it hard to settle on one side or another. I want to be in on this early because I really do think this sort of system is the future of our economy in an automated/robotic world. Really, we won't have anything else to do to survive than to adopt a new economy based on curation and consumption/usage.
If people learn about and implement earthship technology along with cryptocurrency systems like steemit (which I foresee popping up everywhere), humanity will truly be in the best state of existence they've ever been.
Thanks!
I just passed 5000 comments/posts, so I can consider myself addicted. I think the technology is sound and the economics does work. It has to overcome suspicion (ponzi scheme!), confusing user experience and issues with people just going where the big audience is. It's easy enough to just re-post stuff here to try it. Once people see the money coming in they may get interested.
The idea of it being a ponzi scheme is such useless FUD. I mean, I haven't invested one cent into this thing, yet I have about $200 worth of value in cryptocurrencies that I've converted from steemit earnings and an account that's worth over $100. So, like... that's something.
People really just seem to be afraid of new technology. And I get that. I've seen websites since forever that claim to pay out for doing nothing, and they're always a scam of some kind and never pay out -- there's usually some catch like "you can cash out once you've referred 100 friends!" or somesuch bullshit. Steemit is not that. It's really the first promise of its kind... it's moral, it's sound tech, it pays out, it costs nothing to join.
This is the future.
I agree, but we have to overcome the ignorance and suspicion. I proved to myself that it's simple to withdraw even a small amount. I used Tsu, but you needed to get to $100 to cash out and that took me a year! Mind you, that had to be manually verified by the company. We can be the pioneers who prove that it works and can benefit by building up a 'good head of Steem' before the masses pile in.
I'm legitimately excited about all of this. And actually, our conversation here inspired my next video: https://steemit.com/video/@shayne/the-power-of-steemit
Congratulations :) I too find it best just to explore steemit. I love to take part in different community events.
Thanks. :) It really is a community here. People aren't generally shitheads. There's a sense of decency and friendliness that I don't really see elsewhere, and it's getting better: I see the "steemit circlejerk" becoming less and less of a thing, which is great for the platform -- it means it's maturing in a good way.
How do you keep up with community events?
I just participlate in collabs and contests I find in the art or poetry section/tag. A great way to meet new people here. I also just write poems for art, when I see an artpiece that inspires me. it´s just fun.
Yeah, good people. Hitting the trending, hot, and new tabs and commenting on posts seems to be another good way to get yourself out there.
Congrats
Yeah you are a "minnow" when you sign up for Steemit. You become a "dolphin" when you acquire 5,000 SP Power or more.
To be a "whale" you need like 50,000 SP I believe. Could be more, IDK it'll be a long long time before I am a whale.
What's really the benefit of being a whale anyway? People trying to get your attention all day to upvote their shit? lol, I don't know, being a dolphin or an orca seem like good places to sit.
The benefit is that, for someone like myself who posts very controversial topics, I can use the SP power to ensure my posts are not flagged out of existence and more importantly, and if I was a whale I could push posts that I feel are important to the top of the trending feeds so more people see the information.
Good points. I wonder how truly whale-driven steemit really is. hmm...
Well done, @shayne... CHEERS!
And to you, sir.
CHEERS!
HUZZAH
Well done and congrats! I just surpassed 2000 Steem power not long ago myself. I'm working towards becoming a Dolphin!
Sweet! I guess we have the same goals. :D