Steem is like two sides of a wall

Steem is like two sides of a wall. There's three places that you can exist.

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1. On the side that powers up and builds their stake.
2. On the side that powers down their existing stake.
3. Sitting on top of the wall, collecting the rocks thrown by people on either side of the wall.

There's only a few things you can do with your STEEM

1. Power it up and have a better say in who gets new STEEM
2. Turn it into fiat currency
3. Purchase Steem Monsters or get other digital / physical goods by dealing with Steemians.

What are you here to do?

I'm here to amass a fortune in STEEM tokens so that when the time comes, I won't need do anything else. I'll be able to, with a single upvote, feed that artist who produces prolific volumes of work for a week. I can come back the next day and do that all over again.

I could do that over the course of a few weeks, and get a custom work commissioned by them.

Or, when the local pizza shop is online, I can throw them an upvote, and 7 days later, when they claim rewards, get a tasty, tasty pizza.

While we have 3 second block times, its 7 days before anything happens

Action, Locked into the Chain, Then 7 days later, reaction - distribution of funds, based on the consensus of everyone who has happened upon your intent (by voting) to give the votee some portion of the reward pool in 7 days time after they wrote their post.

Community

This is what it is all about, whether you're into brushing your teeth with bubblegum, freedom, music, art, photography, gaming, blogging, making videos, or trolling in the comments.

I stand by this ever increasing wall of STEEM, and I know I'm on the side that is powered up, and I'm running out of things to throw stones at. I haven't self-upvoted for quite some time; and for all 4c it is worth (outside of my outgoing delegations) - it isn't worth it.

I'm here to collect as much STEEM as possible, give as much of myself as possible, and help the height of this wall grow ever skyward with each and ever block that is added to it.

I don't think of STEEM as a blockchain, I think of it as a Block-wall - where each and every post is an interlocking block into the conciousness of this community, its people, and its hearbeat.