Hello everyone!
answering questions about steem on quora, clearing the doubts on peoples mind about the blockchain
Wonderful times we are having, for the past week or so, steem has been closing in on the $1 mark, and SBD has even had a high of close to $2 maybe even reaching it at some point(I cant really say, I havent been monitoring it).
On the platform, a lot of dramas has occurred, from flagging situations, to undelegations(and redelegations), to fights against bots to supposedly scamming intents.
What I am trying to say is that the platform, for all intent and purposes is alive with so much discussions and situations right now, and believe it or not, its all going to work out at the end for the good of the steem blockchain and the steemit community as a whole.
That aside, the situation in which I found myself today prompted me to write this post. I am not an especially good writer, infact writing is one of the things I try to avoid whenever possible. Before discovering steemit, I barely had time to post on facebook or twitter, despite having accounts on both platform for years.
The only thing I went to do in quora was to read up on the question and answer sessions that were delivered there.
Time, is of the essence
image gotten from pixabay.com
So it happened that in the morning after my usual routine of cleaning the house and checking up on my blog, I got a call from a friend about going out to get a few items in a nearby restaurant.
Let me ask a question right now. Say on average, how much time do you spend on Facebook, and "what" do you do there?
Hold that thought.
I and this friend of mine got to a resturant called foodland to catchup on old times and discuss some crypto business possibilities(more on that in another post).
said friend is already on steemit as @ujaykel, posting is what I find difficult to tell him to engage in
What I noticed around was the amount of people taking pictures, replying texts on Facebook messenger, the all important instagraming and snapchating.
Unfortunately I had to leave in a hurry as my cat at home hadn't eaten anything, and I had a load of work to curate from Africans here.
This small encounter however, made me realise that we as Nigerians, Africans, humans, have become obsessed with trivial things, online things, social media things.
See like it or not, facebook, twitter, even steemit, is a business idea when stripped bare, and when these business ideas were created, they wernt created to be run as charity.
There are many motivational books that will tell you that time=money, and they are absolutely right.
Going back to the question earlier, while I cannot give a reasonable figure, I can give an illustration into the amount of time(money) we waste on socials.
Suppose for instance , you spend on average, 1hr a day on twitter, 1hr on Facebook, and 30 mins a day on other socials(reddit, quota etc).
2.5hrs per day, x 300 days(margin of 65 days given for things like no data, poor network, etc x 10 years
At the end of a ten year period, you would have spent a total amount of;
312 Days wasted, just under a year or so. Small, but then calculate the amount of time sleeping, eating,pooping, playing etc and you would literally have spent years not doing anything
Scary right?
In fact, if Steem weren't connected to a blockchain with which you can earn rewards, Steemit would simply be a giant time waster as well.
A start-up company is capable if making above $100k in that one year you wasted if line day for day.
Live for the steem
But steemit isn't just a website, it is more than that, it is the frontend by which we engage with the steem blockchain.
I am no economic student, but I do know that the future of any currency depends on the people using it.
Simply put, the more trust a people have in a currency, the more its power rises.
There was a time in which we used cowry and other materials for transactions, then the paper money, today, we are transitioning into a new age, the age of digital assets and currency.
Bitcoin is a very good example of the power that is to come. For all its worth, bitcoin hitting 10k isn't even the beginning of things, merely a shadow.
Now back to what I was saying. Steemit is an economy. Money is transfered from one hand to another, businesses are run daily, among other things.
Motivational books will tell you to busy yourself at all times with things that will be productive, that will help in the future.
In that case, busy yourself with all things steemit. When online but not on steemit, make moves to promote steemit, paint it in a "true" light(no lying just to bring unnecessary people in).
Go on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, reddit, quora, Whatsapp, badoo, tinder, Eskimi, IMO, meme center and promote the steem.
Let the investors see our economy, let them come to our steemnation.
I started mine long ago, have you?
thanks
I am an African, and I will use crypto tech to change my world, how about you?- @africaunchained @stach @debrecords @leadent360 @redfishpillar
something big is coming. . .
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Nice post! What will happening, if someone resteem your post?
You are right, time has brought back money into the coin form.
I believe the recent $ 20 million investment into steemit has brought about changed here, however we need more. And you are doing good with quora.
more is on its way, steem will make facebook close down that is what I see
Well done this is marvelous write up sir,
I am promoting steemit on my all social media accounts. Actually i have purchased steem also so i am eger to see the growth of steemit top of the world.
yes indeed
I think Steemit has the potential to grow, blockchain technology can solve so many problems that are not enabling humans to progress as a race! :)
ya, blockchain tech means I do not have to trust you 100% before entrusting you with certain assets. The record is available for all to see!
I have forgotten the log in details of my facebook:) Do we have any good hacker in the house? Lol
It's steemit or nothing, I see a double-digit steem price next year. Just like I predicted the BTC to $10k in September. Let's go guys!
lol, brother greenrun be like your predictions are on point o, $20 per steem is not a bad start for the year, bitcoin made a jump of $1000 in a few days
@destinysaid, even at $10 that is a x10. We would all turn to dolphin by force 😎
Lemme stach :D,my agbada first. Ebuka will know that money pass money 😎
@destinysaid, Ebuka's dressing wanted to steal the spotlight from Banky W's wedding :) But truth be told, agbada was made to stand out. 😎
I like this!
Even a blind man who can't but can hear the fluctuation in the price of steem and steem dollae will agree with what you are say.
Something big is coming
@destinysaid
yes o, bros, you better be part of it. Keep moving and steeming!
Tell them...
:D twale! they don know . . .
Boss we will sure reach that destination by God's grace amen
Amin o, fasting and praying session perhaps will work.. . . .
Steemit does need great promotion