Absolutely with you Dan, I'm seeing huge value here on Steem but I'm still coming up against walls with onboarding new people unless they're somewhat technical and/or I hold their hands all the way through sign up (even using Steem Ninja's clearly brilliant sign up).
But I'm convinced (not just by you) that this little corner of Cryptocosm is actually creating something way more valuable and useful than a store of value or unit of exchange. I don't care about earning money here right now.
I care that I'm working on a true PLATFORM that can't yank my work away from me in a heartbeat or destroy the investment of my time that I've put in (as Facebook did to me in Feb when they deleted me and the 1 million follower page of @tommyrobinson I'd helped build).
And here's my plug for the #CryptoClassAction where we're suing Google, Facebook and Twitter for the good of the Cryptocosm. You can read a good explanation here on my blog.
You can join up direct on this form from JPBLiberty.
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