We're approaching the end of a rocky week for Steemit. When I joined last August the Steem price was up around a dollar and top posts were earning thousands. Now it's below 8c. As I've said before I don't consider this the end of the world. I'm actually making a good amount from posts and comments. For the size of the audience (potentially a few thousand, but the views are much lower) I consider it a reasonable return. Should Steemit grow to many millions of active users then thousand dollar posts seem more proportionate. Of course I'd love to make my fortune here, but it's a gamble of my time. I do have a lot of here due to the amazing community, so I wouldn't consider it wasted anyway.
The selected Steemians includes a few who have been featured before, but they deserve it.
- @tatianamoroz has embraced cryptocurrencies to the extent of having her own coin and singing about Bitcoin. I saw one of her videos on a post and later discovered she has been on Steemit since the early days. Great to have her here.
- @mynameisbrian is not afraid to get controversial with his series of comics about Steemit and other topics. In the era of 'fake news' he's making sense to me and making me laugh.
- brought 61 of her students to Steemit. We need the next generation of bloggers here. They will get to enjoy a new form of internet that is not controlled by corporations with a whole new economy.@giantbear has
- @katharsisdrill has a long-running weekly comic that I love. It's now being translated into German and French so that even more people can enjoy it. Will it ever be in Welsh?
- @uwelang is an old friend I've never met, but hope to some day. He's exploring what Steemit can be and promoting it too. We share a liking for beer. He's awaiting his 300th follower. It could be you!
- @surpassinggoogle is generously rewarding good comments with a little Steem. I've been lucky to get well rewarded for some of my comments. I love the conversations here even when I totally disagree with some of the people. We should all need to think about what we believe.
We should have the next hard fork next week, so we'll see what that brings. I wish you all the best!
Thanks for mentioning me @steevc - I feel honoured! Hope we meet sometime - just checked all others and luckily I followed them all already! Great people - Steem on!
I feel sure we will be able to meet some day. Apart from anything I want to go back to Munich some time.
Yeah that'll be cool Munich MeetUp is every month btw - let me know when.
Nothing planned yet.
There are a couple that I need to revisit and only Tatiana that I've never heard of before today.A great list of people @steevc
Thanks for sharing! All good contributors... I think I actually follow everyone already, but this is a good reminder to go check their latest updates!
I'm curious...Did you ever get anything from Grantcoin other than emails or websites to go to? If not, you may want to reconsider promoting them until you see evidence of any payments. They seem to be all talk and no results.
I have had a payment of some Grantcoin. There's another coin you get daily, but I don't know what it's worth. I only had a couple of people join from my link that I know of.
Thanks for responding. That is interesting information, because I have received nothing. I have even written them with no results. Do you have your own Grantcoin wallet? Perhaps that makes a difference.
When did you join? There was a distribution at the beginning of February. It's a little confusing as that's in one wallet, but then there's the Ekata social site. I think they have good intentions, but struggle to communicate well. It's not costing me anything, so I'll give them time to get sorted out.
I qualified for the October-November 2016 distribution, according to them. I have received nothing, but I do get the ekata.social numbers growing every day, but no way to collect. I think it is a scam to get donations, but if you and others actually got cryptocurrency, I could be wrong.
Those are some great picks I also follow @uwelang I love beer lol ! Im now going to follow some that im not already , they all look good ! Thanks for shareing , great post by the way ! Upped and resteemed ! 😊👍😉
Cheers. You can do this too. We can all build the community together
Im now following @surpassinggoogle , @tatianamoroz , @giantbear ! They are awesome choices , im following the rest already ! Thanks 😉👍💙
yeah! Awesome and welcome new friend! @xtrodinarypilot
Hello, Steve. TNX for sharing . I always find new friends because of your posts.
Have a great weekend.
BTW: appreciated, of course.
Cheers. Have a great one yourself
Thank you for sharing your recommendations. I will check these people out for great content :-)
Feel free to share some of your own. I want more people to do follow Friday posts