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RE: Sold a Car for STEEM!!! Anyone Accepting Steem as Payment?
sir thedarkhorse! this is a great story and a great post! But what if the people aren't steemians but have steem to buy with?
sir thedarkhorse! this is a great story and a great post! But what if the people aren't steemians but have steem to buy with?
Personally I wouldn't hold steem without a steemit account. This gets it off the exchanges account and IMO much safer. So not really sure the answer to your question. I have some steem on bittrex to play with, but unless it's for active trading that just isn't smart IMO.
howdy sir thedarkhorse and thanks for your answer, yes I agree with you, well there should be enough steemians in every area that would enable people to do business just on this platform, perhaps.
It will take onboarding more people in any given area to make it work. IMO there are maybe 50,000 active accounts based on numbers I've seen so spread that out over the world and realize the odds of bumping into someone with a steem account are very slim.
But if you start offering the option to purchase with steem and people know this and hate carrying cash they might consider setting up an account. Exposure over time peaks peoples interest IMO.
howdy again sir thedarkhorse! yes sir I agree and hopefully the signup changes coming with the hardfork will help more people join.
You can purchase the steem with a binance (or other exchange) account and then "withdraw" and send it to @meanbees without having a steem account.
That's why we need to continue to grow Steemit, right now there's not really enough users to sustain a business model that focused on transacting in Steem
howdy there rulesforrebels..yes I agree, I wonder how many we need to be active on here, at least a million?
That's an interesting question. I believe eBay has something like 171 million active users. Now eBay has been around FOREVER and is a dedicated ecommerce site so I don't think something would have to be to the level of eBay to be a success or a good marktplace.
I'm not really sure what it would take. One of my beefs with Steemit is that its a blogging platform and not a community. There's nothing wrong with that but I personally believe content is not the main focus on Steemit yet its setup as a content creation platform. Its meant to blog, we don't have groups, we don't have marketplaces, we dont have messaging.
Part of what has kept me from being even more involved on here is that I have to leave Steemit to do things. If I want to chat with people I have to go to discord or Steemchat or whatever people do. If I wnat to transact I would need to setup my own ecommerce site or something.
To me Steemit is more a community and more about networking than content and I wish the UI would cater more to what it truly is.
I realize Facebook is on a whole nother level and I imagine it costs a fortune to do something like that but I'd love to see Steemit get messaging, groups nad maybe some type of marketplace features and I think that would be HUGE
howdy back rulesforrebels! yes I couldn't agree more and I've heard so many on here lament the fact that many of these features could be brought in but nothing happens it seems except a few minor changes are coming with the hardfork.
You are so right though!
Yeah I've been hearing groups are comming groups are comming it will make Steemit better forever but it never comes. That's definitely a frustration, this platform is about networking yet if I wanted to have a chat with you and actually network, I'd have to go to one of your posts and drop a completely unrelated comment in a public space where everyone can see our convo and hope that you see it. Or I'd have to exchange emails with you through comments. Just doesn't really lend itself to making connections even though that's what seems to be the focus of this platform. It surely isn't content as content isn't really rewarded on here.
howdy again rulesforrebels! yes I know it's very strange but people say that the one's who can make these changes are concentrating on the blockchain part instead of the steemit part. So I'm not sure it all works but if they can help the blockchain then I guess that's a priority but someday they need to do things like you suggest with the better features, so yes, I agree.
That would be possible with SMF