RE: It's time to start paying attention to Steem

I really hope coinbase adds steem as one of the currencies and that would probably cause investors to take the platform more seriously and possibly attract more users. The trending page and bidbot abuse still needs to be addressed and I don't think it's the first impression we want new users to get but it is evident that some of the bot owners are starting to take more responsibility as to what their business promotes.

I am hopeful that communities and SMTs will help to address this issue.

One thing I would like to see is being able to buy steem directly from the platform via credit/debit card or whatever without having to buy thru a third party or having to buy another currency to convert, or perhaps someway to make gift cards exchangeable for steem, could be used as a promotion tool in stores as well, kind of like a apple card. That is the one crypto project I really believe in because of it's fast and painless peer to peer transactions so far

I think everyone wants this :)
The problem is it is difficult to do in terms of the regulations in the US.
Hopefully someone will eventually implement it though.