I couldn't agree more.
I recently tried my hand at mining monero, which is supposed to be one of the easiest coins to mine. After two weeks of mining 24/7 I had not reached 0.1 monero. That is the minimum withdrawal amount from minergate. I decided there was no point.
In that same time I mined a couple hundred dollars worth of Steem from my keyboard. If I needed to or I was a fool, I could pull it out any time.
I ain't doing that though, Steem Power all the way! Well, I spend some on SP leasing. Steem Power most of the way!
:-P
Thanks for the post.
Keep Steeming!
Mining (in the sense of running software to validate/produce blocks) is good for supporting the architechture. But I think Steem has a good balance for mainstream users in form of SP..
Aim for at least 660 SP imo.. (that's what I tell my friends). That's the average for 1 million SP users on the platform in 20 years!
@wdougwatson Dude I was in the same situation haha and now I'm all about that Steem/SP game baby!