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RE: Community Brainstorming: What is Steem's biggest strength?
An under-rated asset of Steem is that we have a SteemIt.com as a front door.
Hang on.. I know that sounds like crazy talk, because everyone hates the UI.
However, if I decide I am interested in using Tron.. I don't know where to go and what to do. Which wallet can I trust? Where can I connect with the community.
In the early days of Steem we did something amazing. We brought a bunch of non-crypto users to Steem and taught them how to earn, transfer, sell and hold crypto. That is an asset that most have forgotten about.
We have a "front door" or a "landing page" While our community is our biggest asset, we sometimes forget how we cultivated that asset.
I agree it's a big strength to have a "landing page" for newcomers to get into the blockchain. But is it unique? Will happens if other projects, maybe newer ones with better technology, also build themselves a project like that?
It's unique so far. :) However, I'm not missing your point.
We have a community, a one stop communication platform.
Easy to remember and use - wallet ids, that we call user names.
The ability to communicate important information to most of our stakeholders and the landing page.
Alone, these might not be special. In combination, we have the ability to do what most chains can't. Onboard non-crypto users and educate them.
It has always frustrated me to watch other projects trying to achieve some of the things we have while we focus on our weaknesses instead of embracing our strengths.
Ok, but other projects are able to implement things like this as well, right? Which means we have a head-start.
But is there something we have, that nobody else has and is difficult to re-create for other projects?
We have a stake-based consensus voting system, with a number of applications utilizing it in different ways.
It could also be used as a tool for gathering direction on future initiatives and development process.
Since the Steem blockchain shares many attributes with Bitshares and EOS, I'm not sure we have 1 different thing to point at.
However, if you look at the combination that we have, of fast, easy to learn and use, community friendly and communication platform ready with an active community, I do think that is a powerful message.
This blockchain is a Marketing Dream and could go many directions if we could get a team focused on a vision and a direction, coming up with a Package is easy. Figuring out who's role that is and making it happen appears to be much more difficult.
2 years ago I was attending Dash meetings and listening to them wish they had any of those capabilities.
Indeed! Would you agree that Steem could become the Wordpress of crypto?
Would you be open to take on this challenge?
I'm interested in contributing to the success of Steem and I think that having a vision and being able to communicate it is one of the most important things we need to do. I am absolutely willing.
That's really very important. Hopefully we will have soon better efforts towards the exploitation of the Marketing strategy... We have the best blockchain but still we don't know how to sell it, but we are improving
Bravo. That's the spirit.
I don't hate the UI, I love Steemit.com UI!
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To be honest, I am very used to it now too.
Same here