Has anyone noticed that overall attitude around here improved a little bit over the past few days?
A week or so ago, it seemed that I was nuts talking about how wonderful this blockchain is and how STEEM will be $100 by the end of 2018. A month ago, I was buying STEEM for $.85...now it is more than double that. And Steem Dollars...who ever saw that coming?
As one of the Uber-bulls on here, I do not need price action to validate what I see. This blockchain has the potential to be one of the more powerful and commonly used ones. We all know how big the content creation world is. Most of what is already on the Internet is eligible to be moved to the steem blockchain.
That said, let's set the recent run aside for a second. This is a great time to bring up a point that I was trying to make the past month. Since everyone is giddy since your accounts are going up in value, it is the ideal time to bring it up.
Over the last few weeks I wrote these articles:
There will be incredible wealth generated off STEEM. This is going to make a lot of people wealthy. I know money is not everything. However, the reason I keep going back to this well is money is a pathway to freedom. Under the banker controlled fiat system, we are all enslaved. As the steem blockchain grows, the value of STEEM will appreciate setting hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people free. There really is that much potential.
They key is we all need to remember to work together. There are many who come on here who do not have the ability to power up. They have to take it step-by-step. These are the people who need our help. One of the reasons I proposed the idea of the 1KSP program is because I saw the value of STEEM. Getting people to 1,000 SP is life changing. To me, I see 1,000 SP as $100,000 since there is a minimum where I believe we will see the price of STEEM.
Greed is what the bankers specialize in. Why do people come on here and behave in the same manner? If you are here to get as much as you can for yourself, well, quite simply, you are the enemy. Your mindset is that of someone who enslaves others. Scarcity is an elitist created notion meant to keep people fighting over scraps. That is not STEEM. We came to this blockchain, actually crypto in general, because we rebelled against the banker run world. Each of us, deep down, knows how devastating it is to humanity. Bankers take, they do not give.
So why do people who point out how broken the system is and corrupt the leaders are behave in the same manner? When are you going to realize that this is a different environment. Nobody is limiting the amount of STEEM any person can have. However, there is no reason for each of us not to help others get as much STEEM as they can. Helping someone else out does not cost you. There is not one STEEM that is removed from your wallet unless you choose to. If you want STEEM to grow, thus enriching yourself, do your part.
The developers are hard at work on this blockchain. That is not new. Even when the price was 85 cents they were pounding away at code creating and solving. This recent run is nice and we will see if it continues. Whether it does or does not in the short-term really matters none. STEEM will explode. Presently, I believe we are starting to see what happens when Wall Street enters a market. The total marketcap went from $250B on Thanksgiving to $430B in only a couple weeks. That is a huge sum of money and Wall Street is the only entity I know that can raise that much. And it is just the beginning. We are going to see this throughout 2018.
We all feel good about the recent run in STEEM. Because of that, each of us needs to get busy. Find someone with 25 SP and help that person get to 50 SP. Visit the blogs of some newer people and give them an upvote at a high percentage. Adopt someone like I did with the 1KSP program and give him or her a couple 100% upvotes a day until 1000 SP is reached. Start commenting on posts that have no activity in an effort to get others posts more exposure.
A month ago a post that was worth 20 cents is now close to 50 cents. By St Patrick's Day, we could see that being $5.00. Remember the explosive growth potential in the cryptocurrency world. STEEM is well positioned to experience life changing growth.
Let us all be the opposite of bankers and do what we can to enrich as many people as we can. My belief is that everyone who comes onto this site can be wealthy. A $25B blockchain is a bare minimum for what is already taking place.
One final thought: If you do find a whale who is out there doing what he or she can to help others, make sure you mention it. There is such a biased, unfair in my opinion, against people who joined early, that needs eliminating. For every whale who is a bad apple, there are 10 who are looking to help others and make this place grow. It is up to use to point this out to people.
If you found this article to be helpful and informative, please give it an upvote and re-steem it.
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I just love all what you are writing! you motivate me alot and I'm pretty sure we have a great time to come!
Motivation is good.
Remember the model...Post, comment, upvote.
Simple but effective.
I just hope the crypto ecosystem doesn't morph over time into the banking system we have today.
Very true. I think de-centralized exchanges are going to be very important. As long as the exchanges are centralized, most of the transactions can be controlled.
We are starting to see the move in that direction, but we are not there yet.
If a signification portion of the economy transitions to pure crypto transactions, fiat will become less and less relevant, and it some point it will become obsolete. Then, it's freedom for everyone.
I agree with you @techwizardry.
I am going to put you on the spot...I think that will happen...or at least we will get to the point where fiat is just a minor part of the currency used....
Do you have any guesses on time frame?
I saw one that estimated it was only a couple years away.....I am not sure I can see it moving that fast.
Another point that validates your claim....I believe in 10 years, we will have most of the $100 Trillion world wide economy on the blockchain and fiat isnt spoken on the blockchain.
I think we just need to see the price steady at around $4-5 dollars and once the post payouts increase to a substantial level that will really draw a lot of attention to Steem. I think the reason we havent got there already is that there's always going to be a lot of selling pressure with this crypto because people are earning it here in quite vast quantities and then cashing out. With all the people cashing out you need greater buying demand to increase the price. That is probably the biggest issue for the Steem price
Great point @captaincanary.
I didnt consider the higher $ amounts listed (although they are the same reward system as always since that is figured out in steem and sbd). I might have to add that to a post...
I believe the move from $250B to $420B in a couple weeks is simply because we are seeing the power of Wall Street starting to emerge. That is the only entity that I know that can move things up that quickly. For that reason, I think buyers for all of the top 40 or 50 coins will come out in droves. BTC will still receive a fair bit of that money since it has the name but the spillover will end up in other tokens.
Every time I log onto Steem and see the incredible level of creativity, originality and just number of new projects seemingly popping up every day, I never regret my investment.
I agree with you, we all need to use our Steem as much as possible. When you power up it costs you nothing to vote, and we all win. The more we use this blockchain the more value we give to it, and the richer we all get together.
Use the 20% per day but keep it there so that the vote has value.
Spread it around and make others cheerful. I find that "adopting" one or two to help them along really goes a long way.
Getting newer people to hit milestones is important. Getting the first 25 SP, then 50, then 100, then 500, then 1K.
People who stick with it will see their accounts grow...and the value of them will grow exponentially through out 2018.
I'm finding it hard to keep my voting power, it's been an issue deciding how to use it since I started having enough for it to be meaningful. I've kind of decided to just vote for everything now! I literally upvote all comments and posts, mine and others, and basically all of my feed. It does drain my voting power, but I just see it as spreading it around.
Whatever we do with our vote everybody wins, the important thing is that we vote. I would like to keep it higher, but maybe I'll just start giving away Steem or SBD directly after a certain point if I really want to help out someone I like. I'm pretty happy as long as I stay a dolphin comfortably, I'm not looking to get any more now.
LOL you keep upvoting all your comments, you will grow bigger.
Personally, I try to keep my VP up, which means sometimes I have to walk away from here. I found that not upvoting my comment (I do upvote my posts) really helps to keep the VP strong. I also adjust it...everyone who comments in one of my posts gets upvote (unless it is something really foolish). However, I try to keep the percentage down to be able to pass it around.
I do upvote posts at a higher percentage since more effort usually went into them.
But as you said, as long as people are voting, especially those without a lot of rep nor SP in their account, that is what is important.
I cant afford the 1000sp yet. But I am building my account day by day. Few dollars here and there is starting to add up: )
I resonated with this post. Paying it forward.
i liked this post and i follow your post
Thank you as always for your Steem motivational post. :D It is great to wake up every morning and find your post with very positive perspective about Steem. So, I'm full-powered to begin another Steemit day. :D
I'm very grateful to whales, especially since Steemfest and everything some of the whales made possible for us.
And I'm having so much fun with the SBD lately :)
We can make Steemit what we want it to be. But we all have to figure out what decentralisation and no censorship truly means.
Because everyone here is trying to make Steemit into their own perfect version. To some that means quick cash and begging for upvotes.
To others that means flagging everyone who thinks differently.
And to others again, it means supporting little fish and making them grow, so we can all benefit mutually.
And we can't even judge the quick-cash people because we have no way of knowing what they need it for so desperately. Maybe they have a sick child at home. Maybe they don't know how to pay the rent for next month.
If we all focus on having fun, and creating fun or meaningful experiences for each other, that would be the best compass for any interaction.
And yes, we also need to be compassionate towards whales! If we resent them, why would we ever want to become one of them? They wouldn't be whales if they weren't committed to this platform, even if they were "lucky" or "at the right place at the right time". After all they could have all taken their Steempower out and sold it, and shrunk themselves into minnows again. But they didn't.
Whales are good fish! :)
And I hope you're right with our predictions, so we can all become whales soon and lead by example.
Thank you for the well written and thought out comment. As Bill and Ted would say, that is most excellent (okay I am showing my age now).
Ah look at you, pulling out some subconscious, cosmic, law of attraction principles on steemit. Very impressive.
That is why I write what I uncover in detail. I want to convey to people that this is not a hope for me. I research as much as I can and fully believe in the development teams that are on here. Patience is vital when dealing with software creation and working out bugs. Development teams have challenges that few of us can imagine; it is amazing they get through things as quickly as they do.
There is a lot going on here to be excited about, price action aside. This truly has the makings of being one of the top 5-10 blockchains out there. We will see if it comes to fruition, but the groundwork is there.
One of the biggest reasons that STEEM can rise to this uber-bull prediction ($100 by 2018 end) is that it is already fundamentally better than top seven coins with at least $5.7B. It solves lots of issues with top blockchain- speed (3 seconds), scalability (10K trx per minute), low transfer cost (zero), decentralized (no ICO), best energy efficient mining algorithm (Proof-of-Brain, BTC consumes more energy than Denmark), and new features (Powerdown and delegation)....I can go on and on. Thanks @taskmaster4450, I am feeling uber-bullish too :)
wow I love what you wrote and I thank God for coming early to this community of Steemit hopefully soon the Steem and sbd to $ 100 ... I just wish that by the time I have even about 100 SBD and Steem when that happens ;)
About your 1KSP program I find it great, I hope someone adopts me hahahaha
I think part of it is that a high price helps remind you to pay attention. I have not checked in on steem for a little while, and was curious over the SBD thing (I barely have any! I turned all my SBD into regular Steem previously).
For sure though, people let price dictate emotions entirely too much. Very hard to watch money turn into less money and be optimistic about it for many.
wow amazing blog one..i get huge knowledge.. thanks for sharing..
I am with from the beginning when I started my steemit journey and it is incredible reading your content.
Thank You @taskmaster4450
so helpful post thank you.
Well it sure catched attention the last days, and for social media, getting known is everything.
I only found you a couple of days ago but DAMN you get me hyped. Alright I'm gonna go out and find a few steemians that writes well and support the shit out of them. All in the name of @taskmaster4450! Muhaha:)
True words and 100$ would be simply amazing and definitely life changing for many of us. But most important Steem is about giving, not taking like bankster do as you said above :)
The value of steem has almost doubled which means our upvotes are worth twice as much too! Keep voting people! That is how we help each other out. Does not cost anything to vote. <3
Ding ding ding...we have a winner.
The way people operate, you would think they were having to take STEEM out of their wallet and give it to someone.
I am amazed how few people actually vote for others. Yet then they complain about the bots.
I really do truly love reading your posts... if fills me with so much hope that this platform I am so so excited about could be going places. I've felt very late to the party for my whole first week, and now I'm feeling like an early adopter as I see the potential and scope of Steem.
Potentially earning an hours wage on a post by St Patrick's Day is super exciting! You are right.. this is very much the path towards personal and societal freedom.
We are in the first inning (or early first quarter for you non baseball fans) @aussieninja.
This party is just getting started. Over the next 12 months, you will see a trillion dollars or more sunk into cryptocurrencies.
As for the steem blockchain, there are less than 500K on here....imagine when there are 3M...or 5M...or 10M. And imagine when your account, whatever the present SP is, is multipled by 25 or 50.
Hahaha, thanks for the translation @taskmaster4450.
I think you might be right... I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be. Steem is known well enough to fight off any new competitors at this point... it's just a matter of getting that mass adoption.
I'd really love to start thinking about developing apps or websites using the Steem Blockchain, I'm not really a developer but I have dabbled before... I just really want to get involved. There is so much to learn it blows my mind!
It could be a wonderful opportunity for you.
I would say that it is worth the time to investigate what it takes to create on this blockchain. I know there are a lot of people developing stuff.
You might have inspired me to create Uber Bulls... where people can get places for a small cost via Bull.
I think you might be right... the potential to develop on this platform is huge. The only limit might be our imaginations.
Can you help me?
I want to know how to control the voting rate
The voting slider becomes available with 500 SP. Until then, you have to vote at 100%.
busy.org use to provide that to everyone...I havent checked in a while...perhaps someone can answer if they still have it.
You might want to log onto there and see if it is available.
thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
i love you man
peace :)
hodl my friends to ur coins
Great post and wonderful thoughts.
For what it’s worth, I think that few people have wrapped their heads around how much the launching of Smart Media Tokens might fuel the demand for STEEM.
This is real start for Steem. In the end of 2018 Steem = $50-100. Thank you for exellent explanation and big support for all of us
This place is going to change a lot of lives.
Hey maybe that will be my next post.
Always good to see you @dobartim.
From someone who has less than 25 SP, thank you for this article, taskmaster!
Gave your toddler a little bump.
One day my upvotes will be worth more for you!
Actually your upvote will be worth more the next time you download any rewards into your wallet. Things just keep growing.
Dont worry, the first goal is to get you to 50 SP...then 100...then 500...then 1K
Those 18 SBD help out with the way that took off....that is probably over 100 SP right there.
Thanks for everything!
I know every bit of SP helps. I’m just looking forward to the day where my upvote leaves at least $0.01 all on its own!
I’m up to 336 followers! I grow just a little bit more here on Steemit every day!
Friends, Light, Friends Fear, Friends Power, Win Friends ...
we cant say anything because the price should be 10$ now but instead it goes on decreasing from last few months .Now there is chances because bitcoin price are too high and there will be loss in bitcoin dominace...hope for the best ,,nice post by the way
I dont think BTC will lose its dominance for one reason: It is Wall Street making the push and most of those people only know bitcoin.
That said, there will be a spill over and when you look at the amount of money entering, trillions, even the spill is huge.
"poloniex" has been holding people's sbd for the last 2 days...
there your answer...
use bittrex people it is better with higher prices or any other exchange other than
#polionext
Yes it seems that more folks are happier and the attitudes are better!
I always benefit from your post so I asked you to help now
Bro @taskmaster4450, it feels amazing to be back and consuming your content like I always do in the past. Yes, the Steem Blockchain appears to be on a roll and it's a great sign - but we should not be greedy like you said!
Because it is going well, all the more we need to put in more effort and continue building our community so that everyone can benefit from this blockchain ecosystem. Keep writing!!
Thanks @joe.public.
I dont know if you caught the article but the 1KSP comes from my belief that:
A) STEEM will one day be $100 and
B) That $100,000 will change the lives of 98% of the individuals in the world.
As for withdrawals, that is up to the individual circumstance but my view is with something like this, do your best not to touch it. I am sure you would hate to take 500 SP out at 5K only to see the price then go up another 20 fold.
If my hypothesis is correct about the potential here, and it is reached, 5000 SP in a few years will be generational money. I believe this can have that big an impact. We will see how things unfold but there is a foundation for a buy, HODL, and check back in a few years from now.