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