Reading an interesting article about Steem, I started to think a bit about the whole phenomenon.
It is now 26th of januari 2018 and the price of Steem is now around 6.04 USD, but Market Cap is on 25th place, while bitcoin still nr 1, followed by Ethereum.
I looked it up on marketcap: on januari the 26th of 2017 the price of steem was 0.14 USD.
This means that in one year steem is valued 43 times higher! Or a growth of 4300%!
This is incredible and although the value will have its ups and downs, the fact that there is underlying value in the value of the content that contributers provide, make it much more "valuable" than things like bitcoin...
That is why I believe in the platform.
Besides, I find it much more interesting than Facebook and the likes :-)
The content here on Steemit, or Busy.org for that matter, is so varied and diverse; everyone can find things of interest and contribute / discuss, connect with people on their fields of interest.
I allready connected with a lot of interesting people who are publishing about art, design, music in a very respectfull way.
We learn from each other and the world is full with people who like to share their knowledge and expertise and ideas. The whole process of writing / publishing is sometimes difficult but also very rewarding.
You can learn a lot from this process itself: the fact that you have to think about what you want to express and how to express it is an near Zen like experience!
This is rather unique esp. compared to Facebook which is just full of ego oriented "selfies" coming and going....
crazy what kind of growth right!!
I saw you powering up, good move!
Yes
I Made as nice profit on Ethereum lately, so I decided to powerup my steem with it!
Never a bad move! Powering up gives you money everyday.
And true..eth gave nice profits for everyone in 2017
Watch out with selfvoting your own comments. Community does not like it and might give you a flag for it. Just a friendly advice!
Ok thx for your tip!
Hopefully I'm not too late to join the train !
Do you think this platform will surpass that of Facebook and other social media outlets due to the empowerment of users?
Surpassing Facebook is maybe a bit on the optimistic side...🤔
But , now that I get to know it, in my opinion the potential for this platform is great.
In fact this is a rather new approach to the blogging phenomenon!