people i ask here locally don't seem to understand how you can just get money from "facebooking" ... don't trust it, its crypto ... hackers and drugdealers .... i even asked my mother to do one recipe a week, i'd take the fotos and write the post , said you can make a few euros but she was like "meh" ...
even contacts online seem weary about this "weird thing :)
so i guess it'l just grow as it grows and thats probably a good thing, the last thing you want is a bubble
say you get a million new people in one week thats 15 million steempower that has to be delegated, it has to come from somewhere,
better is to seek ways to attract investors, steem is the best chain for that, its fast and it has zero transaction fees, (no delivery costs so to speak) but the upper class who's already rich when they came in is too focused on being entertained and impressed
it creates a bad climate for entrepreneurs when money as a goal is being frowned on, thats no way to attract investment
the current flag and trollwars certainly aint helping i replied earlier today to someone
imagine a company the size of microsoft or google getting an account (for promotional reason) they come in with a wad of cash, buy a lot of steem so they can make themselves visible and wanted, have people come over begging for cookies lol
if you get one trollerwhale starting to vote them down on everything, cutting massive chunks out of every post they wont stay long, and when they go they take the money with them, and the rise in price will be undone and i doubt they're too stupid to understand that up front, im sure any major company has eyes on any developing network that runs for a while and seems sustainable,
if not to steal ideas from then to buy it out, like facebook did with instagram for instance, its just part of the strategy, wait for someone to come up with something great, then take over, then make it part of their brand so no one else can claim it
im not saying that would be a good thing , but if they dont even want an account
thats a bad thing
right now big money is more important than a million more users, i doubt a million plankton would add very much to the needs of the steemocracy upstairs
but a million dollar would add value for everyone on the net
people seem to be stuck on the original manifesto, but the original manifesto was by and for the already rich, and im quite sure as in real life about 99% of active steemers ain't all that rich
you gotta get out of that mindframe, everyone likes to get paid, right ? if your sbd and steem is fives times what it is and you get the same amount of votes, don't tell that wouldnt feel better, its business after all
you adapt, like morgan and sachs you adapt or else you might get left behind, like mastercard if they dont pick up quickly
mo money, mo chances, more wins :)
there's no reason why there cant be decent content AND business in the same ecosystem here (for lack of better word, its already being done, the bots are business, @blocktrades is business, @steemmonsters wether you like it or not, is business ... by @yabapmatt and @aggroed ... its a game, but the cards are being sold and people are already paying decent cash for them (its not even on lift-off yet) that's where interactivity - content - and business go hand in hand even so
i stick to my guns, right now what steemit needs first is not more accounts, but more money coming in :)))
This.. But it can come hand in hand with user adoption though. I dont have investor friends, I have content creator friends. So at least that's what I can offer.
I have a feeling that Steemit.inc as major stakeholder is purposefully waiting before they roll out the marketing guns. (they spent 1 fucking million dollars for the blue/green bird-thing logo, I don't think they are the pinch pennies type).
If @ned still stood by the message he gave during steemfest2, He's likely waiting the launch of SMT to market that to the investors. STEEM and Steemit is 2 different thing, but in people's mind it's the same. Instead of spending money to change that via marketing, they're better off marketing something totally new (SMT) and then get investors stack up SP for bandwidth, something that people should be familiar what with EOS is doing.
I wont worry.
totally agree ... looks like it's time to buy too, the vote reward went from 0.03 to 0.02 overnight , someones dumping in the whale-sea again
wish i had a few k to spend at this very moment :|
i dont really believe in EOS as they basically sold out before having half a line of code and they already froze a few accounts simply on suspicion but then again, twitter never made a cent until it went public either (officially) ... see what it becomes, if its got something that will pay me i'll be there hahah