I love your thoughts here. Good amount of info - I am not holding anything as of the moment except what I have in Steem Power - because I have too many expenses. What i can say is that I;m getting paid more in Steem for what I do in the community and the quality I provide than my daytime work (actually i'm in the night shift). The cost of living here is lower so minimum wage is just around 10USD.
I wish to try and empower people here with Steem. They have tons of things to provide and they can make a living here more so than what they can make breaking their backbones for a meager minimum wage. I support crypto.
If we can get a Steem Wallet taht directly converts to fiat without going through BTC then that will be a very good advantage. Or if we can get Steem adapted by a lot of people then that entirely removes the step of converting things to BTC or fiat and we can just transact with Steem. This space is providing lots of different projects and opportunities for tons of different people. There's even a 19 year old kid in the Trending section who wants to build his own city based in Crypto.
"You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one"
(I don't really know if my comment made sense hehe)
You’re so right I think the ability to immediately convert to fiat from Steem or Steem Dollars would be huge. What I like to do is sometimes invest my Steem Dollars into other cryptos slowly.
I do that sometimes before converting to fiat via btc. I try some arbitrage and day trading. Sometimes it plays well, sometimes it doesn't. :D