Welcome to Steemit Greg. Nice original intro.
You're right about only 0.00000001% of people seeing your (or my) blog. I've been on Steemit for a while now and recently I've become a bit jaded with the way it is evolving with a few whales rewarding themselves massively at the expense of everyone else, the trending page always full of the same crap by the same people and the way voting bots are becoming more and more prevelant. Rather than continuing to part of the problem by just moaing about it while voting for the same people and only really reading the posts in my feed, I am going to make an effort to find new users and give them a bit of encouragment.
It was hard enough to get visibility and upvotes when I started on here but it is so much more difficult now.
We share a few interests as I am also interested in cryptocurrency, antiques and have only recently started looking more deeply into how we came to be here. You could say I am a reformed atheist as I am not longer arrogant enough to believe that I 'know' anything and more open to the unknown and the idea of a creator than I have ever been (mainly due to looking more closely into Darwinism and realising that it doesn't explain things the way I was taught).
Anyway, sorry for rambling. Welcome to Steemit. I'll start following you now and look out for your future posts.
Good luck
Jim
I'm more of a reader than a poster, so I wouldn't find any problems here. I agree with you about the current state of Steemit too. It would be good to find the new jewels hiding among the sands every now and then.