I recently got an article send which was quite interesting to read at first sight.
The social network Facebook failed with a multi-billion-dollar takeover on the young blogging platform Steemit according to press reports. Steemit Inc. roughs up the blogging world since 4 months. ( aha, 4 months ? Alright let´s go on ) Remitted funds happen after the blogger got many votes by other users of the platform. The payment comes in the crypto currency called STEEM ( So far, so good ) Now they are talking about how Steem had increased in the last year up to 4.89$ but dropped in the value later on. ( Why isn´t anyone talking about the price going up since the last few weeks? ) A look at the user growth figures shows that Steemit has generated more users in 3 months than Facebook in the early days. ( When I have a look at the statistics, Steemit really had increased much more user growth in the early days than facebook. But I don't give any guarantees if this diagram is correct )
There is written that Mark Zuckerberg was busy so they couldn't reach him but someone near his tight environment gave informations instead. Facebook made Steemt Inc. an offer worth 1.6 billion dollars but Dan Larimer and Ned Scott, the founders of Steemit, rejected Facebook´s offer. ( Big News which they are talking about!!! ) Dan Larimer should have shown that Steemit Inc. had bigger and „better“ offers by Alipay from China and Line Inc. from Korea.
I was in shock while reading this article. I will link it below but it´s in german thats why I translated the important lines for you in english. It was published today on the 20th of May 2017 on a little page called 24aktuelles.com. Never heard of this website so I did a little research on it. And here we go - it´s a website where you are able to create fake news but who the hell would write something like this?
Link for the fake news - http://www.24aktuelles.com/580600760bcd6/facebook-scheitert-mit-steemit-ubernahme.html
They point out that all news on this site are fake and just made out of joking. But I had people who believed these articles and then shocked me with scary messages about important topics like political themes etc. ...
Who has the time to create such dumb articles instead of being productive? Anyway I am glad that I do not trust any of these sites and really make sure what is the truth before I share or post important news to anyone else.
Note - Please be aware of what you believe or not. I just know too many who would share articles like that just because they trust what is written on "News Pages".
Thanks for reading
Stay focused
Love, Soldier
Good reminder that you should always do your research before sharing something that might be completely wrong.
Yes babe you're right!
Great article, thank you!
Thank you a lot !
Great post @soldier
Thanks! Appreciate it!
welcome @soldier
Today it's hard to believe what are shown in the News or written in the News Pages. Everything can be false.
Sure ! Always do a research!
Gotta love the disinformation war we are in. Love steemit, nice article
For Best Results: Resteem, Upvote, Follow and Comment!
Disinformation, great word.
Propaganda nonsense and lies! Great work @soldier
We are following you now! Great blog~
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Our pleasure, loving the community here, where aboutss are yall located?
WE are in the jungle of costa rica!
Funny since Facebook and Google are cesspools of fake news and BS. thanks for sharing, soldier.
Your welcome !
even Trump is going to upvote this
cool pal
lol
haha yes!
@soldier fake news (Hoax), they need more data to show that they become sustainable. Many people cant be foolish because of that rubbish.
Sure, i agree with that!
I hope i can follow your next post.
Nice to meet you on this network
Nice to meet you too :-)
So hard
This blog makes me think. What if something like this will happen. Maybe not a takeover, but some rich guys who buy for millios (or billions) worth of Steem and dominate the entire platform by upvoting and flagging posts they like and don't like. Think about it. Will change this platform for the worse I think.
I dont believe that the steemit inc. will let that happen
How do you think they will prevent something like that?
I am not quite sure how they are going to prevent something like that. I just hope for the best. I mean I could happen, some rich guys wanna have fun or wanna change this platform. But as I said, I hope for the best
Oops didn't read it to the end before I posted about it on reddit, lol, oops.
Oh well, once Facebook really starts looking more into Steemit they will have to offer a lot more than that. ;)
haha definitely they have to offer a lot more! How much did they offer whatsapp, snapchat and instagram? Always around 19 billion?
Haha yeah something like that, I remember the whatsapp guy had a grudge with them cause they had declined his job application so he wanted a big part of the payout in cash, lol. They had to fill a lot of trucks to get those billions to him. xD
Talk about getting grudges resolved huh?
Hehe, you know what else would be an awesome grudge resolved?
If the Winklevoss twins who run Gemini.com and own a big % of bitcoin would take a look at Steem so they get in before Mark Zuckerberg tries to buy us out. ;)
Oh wow, you definitely made me search in google about those twins and about gemini.com. Is Gemini like bittrex?
On the other hand, I would hate it that facebook tries to buy us out, this is THE alternative for FB!
Yeah its an exchange but currently only for U.S citizens as far as I know.
The fact is that these texts are written in a way totally believable by ordinary people and this is the key of their viral flow!
Thats right! Its written believable and gullible people trust what is written there.
Will be fun to watch as steemit grows in popularity! I think everyone secretly wishes Facebook to fall flat on its face with what it's become. And Google that Beast needs to be slain.
Totally agree with what you are saying!
An offer worth ONLY 1.6 billion dollars???
What do they smoke? ))))
Haha I had the same thoughts !!! They bought WhatsApp for 19 billion
Yep, now that's a better price xD
Steemit is a happy platorm to share idea, news, etc
Ur right !
That is crazy! (eyes wide open)
Thanks for posting this! This is motivating for a new guy like me. BTW I went through most of your posts. INCREDIBLE CONTENT! I love the fact that you take your time with every post, and that you have such clean layout. Glad I found this post. Have a great day! Steem on!
You're right!
You are not only beautiful, but also smart!
Like your blog @soldier!
I hope from all my heart that steemit will be most visited website ever :)
I so like you blog & photos @soldier !
Great post, thanks for sharing. Fake news is all over the net now, we must check first before believing....as it should always be anyway, don't believe everything automatically.
That's funny :-)
Nice research...
Thanks! I was shocked when I saw the headline
Thanks for sharing this. Followed you, as well.
Good post @soldier! Thanks for doing this!
Good luck bro! best wishes! :-)
I am sure you will find a nice woman :) Great post! You also mentioned the Steem Trailer. Nice!