Yesterday @stevescoins and I both commented on Dr. Jerome Corsi's youtube channel about joining steemit and D.Tube after youtube censored him and many other people.
Here is what I said.
Dr. Corsi come and join us on D Tube, steemit, and other places. I don't know if those will be censored by a filter here or not. The first you can put your videos on and they are decentralized and people like me can up vote them and get content creators money without some corporation dictating whether we can or not. Steemit is the more written side tied to the same blockchain and has been going strong for over two years. If an ordinary person like me can make about $100K just writing there in the past two years you and others I am sure can do even better. Decentralized. Blockchain based. Open Source. Brilliant. No brainer. If enough people come then those of us that don't want to come to youtube will no longer need to, as we only still come here for people like you. EDIT: To add to what 333333sd was saying if you do come over there I am @dwinblood. Feel free to drop a reply to anything I post and if I see you I'll definitely announce your presence to my followers, and I know Steve will too.
@stevescoins was keeping an eye open and noticed Dr. Corsi had responded to me and asked me to email him with more information.
I did this...
Here is What I Sent
Dr. Corsi,
Thank you for responding to the reply on youtube. I likely would have missed it but Steve who was watching told me you had replied. I'm not surprised youtube didn't tell me you replied. This makes me wonder how many other people I have missed when I was trying to get them to move to steemit.
This may take a bit, but I am going to try to be detailed for you. Steem is kind of a new paradigm, and is odd for a week or so and then it is probably the most liberating thing to ever happen to me personally. I am NOT affiliated with the company that created the platform.
Steemit.com is the first of the social media sites to exist on the steem blockchain and it was created by the people who created steem. It isn't as flashy as many sites.
One of the things that takes people longest to realize is that all of the data for the platform is on the blockchain. Steemit.com is just a viewer or if you prefer input/output web page for that blockchain. It's code is open source. It is not the only viewer.
Busy.org is another viewer that is a bit nicer in view. Yet it is developed by a community member so it may lag a bit behind the latest releases on the back end.
The Steem blockchain operates with two crypto currencies.
One of these is Steem. It is very much like any traditional crypto currency.
It also has a second crypto tied to it that is known as Steem Dollars, or Steem Backed Dollars. In crypto world it's symbol is SBD.
When you post something on Steemit, Busy, D.Tube, or other sites you have the option of doing it 100% powered up (I will explain this in a moment) or 50/50.
What 50/50 means is that 50% of what you earn will go to what is known as Steem Power. This is a delayed liquidity form of steem. By delayed liquidity I mean you have to intentionally state you wish to power down. In power down mode it will convert 1/15th of your Steem Power to Steem which is then a liquid currency per week. So to completely liquidate your steem power would take 15 weeks IF you are not doing anything that earns yourself more steem power during that time.
The other 50% is awarded as steem backed dollars. These are immediately liquid. Currently coinmarketcap.com has them listed as being worth $3.69 per SBD. They were as high as $10 a month or two ago. In the past they attempted to keep them pegged as closely to $1 dollar as possible, and though they pegged it to the dollar the creators said they could easily change that to peg it to silver, or something else. They just wanted it to FEEL familiar to people.
Steem Power is important. The steem blockchain can be viewed as a large company of which we are all stake holders. How much stake you have depends upon how much steem power you have.
So there are a lot of people that do 100% power up posts because they believe in the new paradigm so much. I have done that myself.
You can reverse the power down process I mentioned above and actually convert liquid steem to steem power at any time.
Why would you want to do this?
Well when you up vote (or down vote) how much your vote is worth depends upon your steem power.
Steem is not created like bitcoin needing to have tons of electricity and machines crunching problems. It still depends upon machines and these machines are what are known as witnesses. I will get to that.
It is a Delegate Proof of Stake blockchain and as far as its ability to process blocks. It is based upon Graphene 2.0 and is one of the fastest blockchains out there. The only blockchain I am aware of that is potentially faster is EOS and it is another project by the same guy that created Steem, and Bitshares (both using Graphene 2.0 tech). His name is Dan Larimer.
It is way faster than bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, etc.
It also doesn't charge you a fee for moving your currency, sending it to someone, etc which those other chains do.
The witnesses are people WE vote for that have setup machines to be nodes for the blockchain. They are monitored for being up to date, etc. You have 30 votes as a user and how much your vote is worth depends upon how much steem power you have.
People will do campaigns and get votes as witnesses. People you see that are witnesses that you do not like their approach to the community. You need not vote for them.
The top 19 witnesses are LIVE and ACTIVE nodes and they receive a portion of the steem that is produced every day. The remainder of that steem is sent to people based upon the weight of the votes they received for that day. So as more and more people join that spreads out a bit more.
So there are plenty of things to share about this. Yet I'll simply tell you how I made over $100K in two years.
I started using steemit I think around July 7th, 2016. I was looking into mining some ethereum when I noticed a currency steem was increasing about 200%. I asked what is that.
I ended up at steemit.com where it said you could get crypto for voting, commenting, and posting. It didn't cost anything. In fact, they were giving people $10 worth of steem.
When I joined that gave me a whopping 10 steem power. :)
I tried posting some things and I had one post say it was worth $300.
So pretty soon I had more steem power, and I had this steem dollar currency I had no idea what to do with.
I learned about sending steem dollars to exchanges and converting them to bitcoin or any other currency I wanted. It isn't that difficult, and in reality it is more convenient once you get used to it than going to an ATM, an Bank, or something like that. In fact, the slowest point was the bitcoin. Bitcoin was slow and I'd get charged a fee when I bought something with it.
I got a bitpay visa card which I no longer use and it enabled me to charge that card up with US Dollars converted from Bitcoin. Yet I had to pay the bitcoin miner fee every time. It usually was about as expensive as a very expensive ATM fee. It got ridiculous in December when bitcoin hit that $20,000/coin mark. That fee was $30 - $100 or more to move bitcoin. I had $138 worth of bitcoin in a bitpay waller and it wouldn't allow me to put a dime of that on the visa as it said I didn't have enough to pay the fee.
I began looking for alternatives. Coinbase.com allows you to use bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, and litecoin at the moment. It can direct deposit to banks, you can also purchase any of those things with US Dollars if that is your desire. They are affiliated with a shift card which can connect directly to your bitcoin account there and doesn't charge fees. That is my current avenue that I use.
I have also begun investing in numerous crypto currencies. I've learned quite a bit in what almost seems like osmosis just from using the platform.
(yes I can tend to ramble)
Anyway I have never actually spent a single dollar on steem. All the crypto I own, and all the purchases I've made over the past two years are 100% products of me posting on steemit.
As you post and get a reputation for quality work you will attract followers (much like subscribers in other places) and they will see your posts in their feed when you post.
As you get more followers who have more and more steem power your posts will begin to earn more and more money.
At the moment if I just vote on myself I could earn $4/post. Yet there is a limit to that.
Each of us have a maximum of 10 votes at 100% per 24 hour period. Yet you can vote percentages. I will vote on my posts, and other people's posts generally quite high. Yet I always leave some and vote from 2% to 4% on a lot of the people that reply to my posts and engage me with dialog in order to encourage discussion.
It is a lot like reddit with a couple exceptions. You make money, and the troll population is low.
I've noticed with money in the picture people being jerks and trolling don't tend to last long or make any money, so for the most part people are decent.
I've had good conversations with people when we disagree almost 100%.
With that said there are some problems, as human nature always finds a way to produce, but they are better than any alternative I've found.
Those problems are basically that there are some people that mined steem early in the process before I started using it and when mining was still a thing. When Steemit launched they were already pretty powerful people. The community refers to them as whales.
In July 2016 there was some woman that made $36,000 on a makeup tutorial video. That didn't last, but it was insane.
Some of the whales out there are sometimes called "bad whales" and there are not many of them. I've seen them down vote people they disagree with, etc.
It was a verbal and post war I fought for some time. It doesn't happen often, but it is important to know that it can happen.
The key here is perseverance.
Steem is like a new world, and it is wonderful and amazing with the occasional blemish.
So I have made what I have by trying to publish regularly, have good dialog, and try to offer things of value.
I could make more, as I've seen what is popular. I don't do that. I write what I want to write, when I want to write, and literally about pretty much anything though I tend to write in philosophy, politics, history, and music the most.
I am a guy that was an unknown to this community.
You are not.
Alex Jones is not.
I would expect if you join you would get some haters. That's the state of the world. Yet if you let me or steve know you joined we'd start driving traffic your way.
You see steem also has a feature known as resteeming.
It is like retweeting, reblogging, etc.
When I do it that post shows in my feed to all of my followers. It doesn't award me anything for doing so, but it does get you more traffic.
D.Tube:
D.Tube was created by a community member who takes the main post and basically what from a programmer/engineer perspective I'd consider the header information. The video information is stored on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) which is a distributed file system.
Steem blockchain entries cannot be censored, neither can IPFS. It would require taking down all of the nodes simultaneously and then making sure they can't come back up. I told you there were 19 live/active witnesses. There are more than 100 and growing on stand by ready to pick up the work if something happens to any of those nodes. Anyone with the desire, and ability can create a witness node.
There is a beauty here and it is something that people like yourself and infowars could take advantage of.
Steemit displays the blockchain data one way.
D.Tube another.
Busy.org displays it another.
Yet you are looking at the same data from ALL of these places.
I honestly think an infowars like frontend that is an alternative to steemit or anything else you want could be created. It just has to be able to view, and submit to the block. It can even be setup to filter and show only specific people.
Why am I saying this?
The future.
I see Newswars and Infowars regularly. I also look at them and say... "Too bad that isn't on the blockchain" as then every single news story posted, etc on those sites could be getting votes from community members. Both supportive and hateful.
Yet it can't be censored.
There is a caveat to the censoring.
Steemit.com is controlled by steemit, inc.
They could alter their web front end and make it block your post. Yet it would still be on the blockchain and visible on busy.org, or any other blockchain viewer.
So being able to hide things might be necessary if you want to recreate something like newswars and infowars and have it only show certain authors so it is more a catered visit.
Yet the blockchain itself would still have everything.
So occasionally some jerk will come along and vote a persons post down so it is almost not visible (on steemit, I don't believe this is an issue on D.Tube).
This ties into a reputation system. I have a pretty good reputation so often I can reverse these actions even if the person doing it had more steem power than me. Reputation is built in other ways. It was created for a reason...
and yes I could go on and on and on
suffice it to say. I earned what I did by posting a lot, engaging with other people in their posts, and just trying to get better at it.
I am an ordinary guy.
People like you with an audience could take off like a rocket ship.
Is it perfect? No. Will there be problems we can't see yet? Surely.
Yet it is a new paradigm and it is beautiful, and those people CAN'T STOP US. :)
I hope to see you there...
https://steemit.com/@dwinblood
I hope this wasn't too overwhelming. If you have further questions please don't hesitate to work. You do great work and I definitely want to support your further efforts.
Also feel free to share this communication you want with anyone you think might be interested.
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Whether he will take me up on that and join us here or not I cannot say. @stevescoins recommended I turn this into a post and share it.
Thus, I have. :)
I did send him a short follow up correcting those confusing last sentences. I promise you, that even though I am long winded the follow up was short. It could have easily fit on a Twitter post.
EDIT: March 1st
We have not had further communication with Dr. Corsi. @stevescoins and I were trying to get him up to speed. We are not going to bug him in email as we know he is in the middle of a storm of activity at the moment. I also don't want to be one of those nagging salesmen. :)
Here is the final email I sent to him just now and I do not intend to send any others unless he reaches out:
Dr. Corsi,
Steve and I will leave you be now and you can reach out to us when/if you want to proceed. I did want to tell you that we have reached out to other community members and we also have a gentleman by the name of Rich (@richq11) and he would be glad to help and mentor you through the process.
We reached out to him as he is elderly and he is sole source of income comes from his work on Steemit. He is a veteran, grand father, etc. I also am certain he is a fan of yours.
He had to learn this tech, and how to turn it into money and such and it was very alien to him. You may actually be more technologically adept than he was.
So we thought if you do move forward he would be a great guy to help you out that can come at it from a less tech speak approach than someone like myself.
I of course would help you as well, but I'd like it to be as smooth and comfortable for you as possible and get you up to speed way faster than those of us that had to learn this new paradigm by poking and prodding at things.
I've seen Youtube back pedalling some with you specifically being named. I know you are in the middle of a hornets nest and have a lot going on. Steve tells me you joined Gab. That's a good first step.
We will not email you and bug you. If you need us, we are here. Keep up the good fight!
Thanks for the shoutout ;>
@truthforce and @wakeupnd brought up the censorship of Corsi's work during a Discord session; @wakeupnd volunteered to write up a post, and I saw your blog on social media censorship, and thought it was a good place to speak up ;)
one of the themes we're hitting in #informationwar is recruitment of big names, especially those who are getting censored by the Ministry of Truth.
...which reminds we, we reached out to Ben Garrison a coupla weeks ago, and i need to follow up with him.
I hope that Corsi finds the value in your words, and if he needs to jump in quick, let us know, and we'll groupfund a quick account for him!
He found value. I forwarded you an email. He seems interested and said he'd need help and tutorials. We can do that. I'd be working on it already, but it came right in the middle of a PC upgrade (mine).
My wife's PC died last week. I ordered parts to upgrade mine, and she got my MB, CPU, and MEMORY. That's usually how it worked as I do much more insane things than she does.
I've got mine mostly working now, but still working out some of those final kinks.
Anyway, I forwarded an email and mentioned you to him so if you want to tag team help him in email and CC me we might be able to get him what he needs quicker.
Good write up!!! Glad you reached out!
got it. any clue on how long the current wait time for an account is?
(answered 7 days to several weeks)
I'll ask Jerome how quick he wants to get up and running
We could create him one immediately using steemconnect if we're willing to pay for it (it's cheap)... I resteemed an article a bit ago on how to do it right around the time I created @metal4ever.
So we could do it... no wait.
https://anon.steem.network/ You can also get him one this way.
Yep I created one of my accounts that way.
I prefer this way, it costs less but it isn't completely anonyomous.
https://steemit.com/steem/@cron/how-to-create-account-with-delegation-using-steemconnect-com
So if the account I want to create needs to be anonymous I'd use the method you listed.
If not. Then I use this steemconnect method.
brainwise, I am done for tonight, so I won't be watching for Corsi's answer tonight.
There was an issue brought up re: issues w/ dtube uploads, and @ausbitbank came through with a formatting link, which is elsewhere in these comments.
Curated for #informationwar (by @stevescoins)
Relevance: Building #informationwar community; recruiting to Steemit; fighting back against social media censorship
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Good job @dwinblood!
I saw your post and Dr. Corsi's reply this morning and was very excited. I hope he joins.
He replied with interest saying he'd need help, and tutorials. It came in right in the middle of me upgrading my PC. I'm almost done with that. We can help him in that respect.
You know if we get him here and he GET'S it that will be opening a big door and a bunch of other people would likely follow.
Great Job in explaining what is most often the barrier for new people to get involved with the platform. Your post helped me understand better how this process works. I love Mr Corsi and hope he is quickly appreciated for his thoughtful insights and generous sharing of his knowledge. He is a true treasure. It is disgraceful that youtube is embarking on this kind of censorship. They are the only choice for independent media on a large scale and this interruption in information is extremely harmful to those that align with his perspective and guidance. Thanks again.
I am in the middle of a PC upgrade so not at 100% yet but hope to be here in an hour or so. He already expressed interest and said he'd likely need help, and some tutorials and such. I know we as a community can come together for him on something like this.
That letter probably was tldr, but it was well thought out and informative. If he has the name steemit.com, when things get uncomfortable (as they already are getting) they'll have a back up plan in place ready to go. Thanks for reaching out to Dr. Corsi. I hope he joins Steemit someday. Actually, I think it's somewhat inevitable. They've got a ready-made audience here, just waiting to upvote them. @ironshield
He actually responded to that letter.
A lot of us don't do the TLDR thing. That likely isn't a term a New York Times Best Selling Author who manages to read QAnon posts is likely to say either.
Though after he responded to that saying he'd need help and tutorials what we hit him with might have been too much then, but really I know he joined Gab. I guess Gab is doing Gab TV as well. Also, it was around that time that youtube began back pedaling and saying they made a mistake, blaming it on the algorithm, blaming it on volunteers, etc. Dr. Corsi was specifically listed in some of that so he is at the eye of the Hurricane I think.
Youtube is now saying these bans were "mistakes" and will be bringing the channels back.
funny how often these..."mistakes"...happen to folks that point out the inconsistencies and falsities of The Narrative, and don't happen to the Good Little Parrots
If they can choose to BAN anyone because they don't like what they are talking about then that is not "free speech" so let that ship sink.
That was a very detailed and well explained write up of Steemit and how it all kinda works.
I've seen lately some people saying "Oh, infowars, I wouldn't want them here, blah blah blah" or not wanting other media outlets they disagree with to join. I don't get it. Isn't the goal to get everyone here? Not just people you may not see eye to eye with? Worst case scenario you just don't follow that person/outlet, and/or mute them.
Let's not hate on anyone wanting to come here. Let's welcome them with open arms. In the end, it only benefits us. Hopefully Dr. Corsi can see the writing on the wall.
He is ready. He wrote back to me saying he'd need some tutorials and help. We can provide that. I'm in the middle of a PC upgrade right now (mine) or I'd already be working towards those ends.
Good job @dwinblood! I saw your post and Dr. Corsi's reply this morning and was very excited
He has gone silent for the moment. I'm not going to bug him and will give him a chance to decide. He is in the middle of the youtube debacle at the moment so has A LOT going on.
thanks your opinion @dwinblood.and i going this side
unnecessary Censorship it is, and everyone hates it!
He will surely join @dwinblood!
informative news.... upvoted and resteemit done...
Good job @dwinblood!
I saw your post and Dr. Corsi's reply this morning and was very excited. I hope he joins.
unnecessary Censorship it is, and everyone hates it!
He will surely join @dwinblood!
one of the themes we're hitting in #informationwar is recruitment of big names, especially those who are getting censored by the Ministry of Truth.
...which reminds we, we reached out to Ben Garrison a coupla weeks ago, and i need to follow up with him.
I hope that Corsi finds the value in your words, and if he needs to jump in quick, let us know, and we'll groupfund a quick account for him!
ow!!
but they were very helpful at that time..
Nice work brotha!! Great info too!!
Thanks for giving the chance to enjoy this beautiful news!!
great news
thanks for share
@dwinblood
resteem and upvoted
Good job @dwinblood!
I saw your post and Dr. Corsi's reply this morning and was very excited. I hope he joins.
Great PR - I did a similar post to encourage a new user - I wrote "get your arse on Steemit, fakebook sucks balls" - and she has done!
Awesome email Wow.
You taught me much and I have been here for a month.
You should be considered for an ambassador position for steemit!
@ned is there a position like that?
We have some people that run around and do that yeah. @andrarchy is one such person.
I don't run around like they do, but I do try to help where I can.
We have to do something about the flagging. I got attacked again for being honest! 3rd time in one month 37rep last night now 11 rep! All from one person that seems to only attack people to repress opinions and view points!
Yep. We haven't come up with a way that will work. Every way we've thought up can be exploited other ways, or simply stopped by the person creating another account and using that.
I was an advocate for removing the down vote completely when I first started here, but that is keeping a ton of behind the scenes spam from flooding the site.
The only positive I can say is they can't completely hide it. Only on one website, and there are many. Though I do dislike them being able to quash potential rewards. That to me is a form of financial censorship.
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Excellent excellent. Let's hope he comes over. I've been a QANON addict since December...
He replied that he is interested but that he will need some help and tutorials. We CAN do that. :) I just happened to be in the middle of upgrading my PC when the email came in. :)
Just remember his age; make his orientation as layman and accessible as possible. The steemit experience for noobs can be quite daunting, even more so for old folks
@stevescoins and I are going to tag team the process and hopefully give him whatever help he needs. Even to the point of we'll use steemconnect or anon.steem to get him an account quickly so he doesn't have to be stuck waiting in limbo.
I just hope his experience with dtube is better than mine was. I finally threw my hands up after fourteen unsuccessful video uploads.
My son had problems too in the past (@theanubisrider) and got frustrated but, he's been doing it quite a bit lately. So I think it is getting better. It's pretty damn good considering the difference in team sizes between the people making it and the massive corp that is Alphabet Corp.
this is a good point; I;ve had my own problems w/dtube uploading...we need to get all the troubleshooting resources lined up before Corsi comes on board
This is why I try to tell people any new platform when compared to an existing one will have growing pains and problems and will need us to have some patience.
https://steemit.com/dtube/@cryptorocko/how-to-upload-to-d-tube-bug-free-and-without-any-issues-step-by-step-guide-solved-d-tube-tutorial
@stevescoins - thanks for this link. I'll give it a try. Because my drone travels are 4K UHD, I think my best bet is to post on DTUBE (downrezzed), and also post a link to the hi-res Youtube video. I want to help make DTUBE more mainstream, and will continue to use Youtube for 4K UHD until DTUBE has that capability. Thanks again.
I love it. You are a patriot... Long live QANON
Great job done by you
Good Clarification...
nice your concept .....Right now I am only learn that steemit is just like the world. In the world I can defend myself against my attackers
Awesome! I have been following Corsi quite closely for about six months now. Watching the censorship war rolling out on the big social media sites has been more than troubling. The "alternative" media needs to migrate to Steemit ASAP.