Remembering My Big Steem Dreams
I had huge Steem Dreams once.
When Steem was $8 with less stake than I hold right now this account was worth $96,000. I posted every single day and made 100s of comments.
The idea was simple. Come and blog and earn a few tokens. Back then we had a ton of traffic and 45000 posts a day, sometimes more. Your stake was your stake. Funny thing was, most people didn't abuse it. A few did.
It was hard to get visibility and it took a long time to get attention. Noobs always had a hard time, many stayed anyway, and built a great account.
I made 96 posts that didn't earn a thing, and later for months at a time my posts were in the top 10 read and commented on posts and they earned pretty well also. For the first several years I didn't sell a single Steem, but powered everything up. I was in for the long haul.
It was a long road between, we are quickly coming up on my 4th anniversary on Steem, but it doesn't feel the same.
Fighting over rewards, fighting over every hard fork, Flag wars and more.. but of course mainly the community split.
I miss the community that left and I miss engagement.
To be fair, I haven't been very good at creating engagement either.
I think Ned had every right to sell his stake (he owned the keys)
I think everything that happened after that was about hot heads escalating instead of cooling this off.
However, our current deployment of the DPOS system and a heavy handed stakeholder still makes me very nervous.
The other chain has all the same problems
I learned about crypto here, bought my first bitcoin to buy Steem. The next ones I bought to hold.
What a great and lucky ride, I will always love the platform including crypto lessons, lessons on Freedom, lessons on many things and a great group of people. Steem and it's community shaped my views on Crypto, Freedom and Peaceful protests.
I still love Steem, but it's time for the newbies to carry the torch!
Doesn't mean I can't post and watch from time to time!
I had HUGE Steem dreams once.
Rebuild!
Wauw, whatsup!!! What a post....
What has changed? The steem blockchain did not change!
Did you change? Why?
I stick to steem ... with Justin's deep pockets, and integration roadmap with TRON it's worth my attention. And with our korean friends and esspecially @justty and @steemchiller and many others there is enough decency left on this blockchain to outperform many others when the bull hits the road.
Agree with you, it's a little bit sluggish the progress, but hey, there is competition, so when they keep some things in the hidden, I understand.
A new web 3.0 frontend, that would attrack new and more users attention is not rocket science.... maybe they are already working on that.
Steem 2.0 could wel be re-branded to something entirely different.
Cheers, and thumbs up!!!
I was just a few weeks behind you and had stars in my eyes, too.
(Ned could've walked amongst us as a god, if he hadn't been intent on screwing us over for his own benefit.)
Then my too gruff exterior reminded me that if I have to survive at the whim of the popular kids I was gonna be hoeing a tough row.
One whale that will remain nameless, if not blameless in destroying another steem fork, voted me more than 20 times with a vote that he thought was funny because he knew it would round down.
I was joke to him, some amusement for his day.
And you know what? His money still gets more respect than I do.
But, this game of life is won by pluck, those folks that have it handed to them, or take it by crook, and begin to lord it over others will get their comeuppance as long as I simply continue being a good person.
That is simple physics.
I may not be the most mannerific, but I call it as I see it, too.
So, I feel the deadness, but it won't stop me from persisting.
I hope you stick it out, too.
The breaking point for me was when they start freezing accounts. On both chains.
I think we can't survive.
We can't, but others will.
You mean we like individuals or like platforms?
I meant platforms.
I think people will come again and they will use it.
They will not care about the history.
I suppose I had dreams, too. This account came about on the "crazy" idea that we might be able to support content that was not about developing dApps, cryptocurrency, the platform itself, blockchain chatter and technical stuff. I even was idealistic enough to think that it would be the presence of such content... even photos of cats... that might "soften" the content enough that someone from the greater world might look at this and think it was about something more than just "nerd money."
I'm still here, but not with the enthusiasm and hope I once had...
=^..^=
Damn. I came waaay late and I had big dreams too. I was unfortunate to come in when the fire was just starting to consume everything. I was fraudulently profiled once and lived to tell the tale. But heck, I loved my stay. I learned about crypto here and this has opened up other avenues of the same. Now I am sure I want to invest in it for my future 🤷♀️
Steem it is not the same vibe as before.
Neither is hive.
To be honest, Hive is growing and is cool to be present there.
Are they freezing funds in Hive too? Wow @whatsup
I didn't say that.
Do you even know how it actually all started? I never heard about freezing crypto assets until those donkeypongs did it with a legitimate bought Steem stake. ALL actions after are a result of that initial STUPID decision. So you can believe the crap told to you, like 75% of the herd did.