Hello Steemit

Hello Steemit community, my name is Candelario. I don’t have much of a clue as to what I am doing here; but then I guess that is my whole motive for joining.

On both a professional and personal level, I am excited about the potential applications of blockchain (or hashgraph, or whatever happens to be the cutting edge shared ledger platform at the time you are reading this) technology for social inclusion and improved livelihoods, especially for resource-poor rural communities in the so-called “developing world”.

A big hug to all those still reading.

On the other hand, I am also perturbed by the new technology. Up until now, I have always been free to ignore the internet’s unrelenting torrent of toys and gadgets. But the latest set of breakthroughs (“Web 3.0” I guess they call it) implies changes, not too far down the road, that are epoch-making, i.e. changes that will touch our lives in profound ways whether we like it or not. It feels like I am caught in a riptide which I am not strong enough to swim against.

To avoid freaking out, I 1) avoid watching unhinged youtube “new world order” tirades; and 2) keep reminding myself that said epoch-making changes are in their essence quite altruistic. A withering away of financial gatekeepers and other abusive concentrations of power? Hooray for that. Trust as capital? Love it. A world that does not revolve around Kim Kardashian and Wall Street? Tell me more.

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So, I am here to relax and study the current, rather than fight against it. What motivates people to post and read and vote and comment on all this content? Is all the foment and solidarity real, or is it speculation-driven and self-serving? Is this a supportive community of inspired entrepreneurs, or is it a futures market? (Or both?) Why was my account worth $0.82 as soon as I opened it for the first time, and why did I already have one follower, who then quickly unfollowed me? Curiouser and curiouser!

As a vehicle to this end—work and real life permitting—I look forward to exploring this space as a sandbox to think through some pro-poor dApp ideas bouncing around in my notebook, and I guess as a general creative outlet for my mathy-artsy dilettantism. The internet and I tend to have divergent tastes, so don’t expect anything trendy. If I ever understand what “curating” is, I might try to do that. That’s me in the photo above, taken this morning. Here is a shot of my notebook. You’ve been very kind to read this far.

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hello man, welcome to steem blockchain

Welcome to Steemit - I think you might have overwhelmed people with all those questions! I'm just presuming they were somewhat rhetorical and I can just get away with a welcome :P Hallo Kate

I'm with you. It's all very curious. I'm excited though and think it will be a fun adventure while we learn this new landscape. I do wish the blogging setup was a bit more advanced and easier to use. That's going to take a minute for me to adjust to. I say let's just enjoy the journey here and see where it goes. :)

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Creative intro, like that approach :)
Resteemed you via @welcoming, my page for resteeming promising newcomers like you!
Keep your unique style, and you should be successfull - depending what success is to you of course ;)
Greets!

I think you're going to do very well around here, especially if you're thinking up projects for the blockchain.
It's the wild west all over again, see you at the saloon.

Hey there, welcome to steemit. Lot of developers here. I am sure you'll have a good time around here :)

Welcome to Steemit~
Hope we can be friends~
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A big welcome to you @candelario , Am glad to have you here on steemit. Curating is more like getting rewards for upvoting people's posts and comments. But you sure have to have some reasonable steem power to do this. Hope that was helpful. I can't wait to see all the lovely stuffs you'll be posting here. You welcome.

I just resteemed, followed and upvoted your post also,so that more people will see this post and support it too.

Please, I need a little favor from you, am in a design competition now, here is my design

and I'll really need your help. All you need do is to go to this link

https://steemit.com/contest/@steembay/the-big-steembay-contest-we-need-a-logo-startimage-win-50-sbd

And then check the comment section for the logo above, and then upvote the logo. My user name is @lucyc.

If you are good at designing logos, you can join the contest also. Thanks so much for your help.

Welcome sir here on steemit