My motivation was to get to know blockchain technology and maybe find out how they will evolve in the future.
Steem seems to be an entertaining way to find out. There are a lot of insightful and timely posts on all kinds of blockchain usecases and coins on Steemit.
Plus, Steem is an intersting example for a prof of stake implementation.
Since I've observed the whole crazyness I could never figure out what a proper application would be today and who would implement it.
To my mind, blockchain would be best suited to track ownership of assets which dont't trade that often - say a house.
And most important: the transaction can be way faster and cheaper since there is no need for middlemen and outdated processes.
I totally agree with everything you said. I don't even know what "blockchain" is when I first joined here. Thanks to some blog posts in here I began to understand even just a little bit as to how it all works.
And yeah me too! I am looking forward as to how this platform would evolve in the months to come. Especially next year after SMT is released.
So far Steem is doing great. A year ago we don't even have a working video streaming platform. Now we have at least two DTube and Vimm. Steem also have been penetrating Wordpress through Steempress. I have to say this blockchain compared to others is doing pretty well in terms of development. :)