What would you do in their shoes?

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It's not a secret that the whole crypto world owes a big thank you to Satoshi and the team of devs that came up with the idea to develop and bring BTC to life.

Maybe, just maybe we wouldn't be here talking...chatting...vlogging and all those things one can do on Steem, if they they hadn't delivered, some 11 years ago. Maybe there wasn't STEEM at all...who knows.

The thing is that BTC is the flagship of the entire crypto fleet. It is what draws attention and also what corrupted governments and middle men are trying to get rid off. And it simply resists nicely. Not only it resists but it also grows exponentially over the years.

Does that mean that at the same time it is also the cutting edge of all crypto assets? Hell no!

The reason I am writing these lines isn't to highlight the disadvantages of BTC compared to various other networks and projects including Steem of course. More or less everyone knows that.

The real reason is to highlight the unique way Steem blockchain is designed by default. One can literally earn STEEM without having to invest a single dime.

On top of that, it is interesting and also fun how one can earn more and more STEEM and grow their accounts. Blogging...vlogging...commenting...curating... are just some of the ways to earn more tokens.

Where's the fun in holding BTC...? -price excluded-


Or how can one even grow their BTC holdings or any crypto holdings without further investment? They can't.

If you are holding 1 BTC that's it. You are holding 1 BTC. And you patiently wait the price to go up. You can't have 2 unless you start trading like a maniac or buy some more.

Now you do realize that one can start as a plankton and end up as an orca if their content is great. Great content equals big support. Maybe not straight away but eventually it does...

Of course they have to be patient...consistent....stubborn...passionate...

Speaking of support...


There are some really big accounts around here whose votes make a huge difference. @blocktrades, @ocdb and @theycallmedan can probably trend any post with a full vote. So can some bid bots such as @upmewhale who have turned out to be killer curators and thumbs up for that.

How many times have you dreamed of holding their stake?

Let's just say that you were holding 1 million SP. What would you do?

Ok, you would probably curate, making a few people happier every day. What else?

What kind of content would you support?

Would you try to turn that 1 mill SP into 2 at any cost?

What would you do to shill STEEM?

Would you even be active or you would have delegated your stake and you would be gone?

I am trying to imagine how it feels like being a 1 mill SP holder...but I miserably fail...every time. It's more like a dream, but also a nice way to interact with you all and see if we are like minded.

Looking forward to your comments or even posts if you feel like you wanna dive deeper into that.

Damn this could have been a nice contest...

Anyway, have a great one people.

Food for thought....

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You may not have heard of an early forked alt coin of BTC that went with rewards using the wikipedia model as opposed to social media.

Their wiki, Devtome, presently has a submission moratorium as they move to merge mine with STEEM.

If interested check out @devcoin, STEEM's Proof of Work older brother. 😎

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Hm, you guessed right. Never heard of it before. I'll check it out.

Still... maybe there are a handful of projects with similar mechanics(?) No matter what, it is unique :P

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So early that when it "forked" it wasn't even forking "BTC" but "bitcoin" er "Bitcoin"? :P 7/22/11 aka pi-day (7/22=3.14-ish). Haha

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It's always good to question 'who benefits' ... on one hand btc is 'switching things up' in terms of the entrenched institutionalized way of doing things, but it can also bring about a whole new freaky era of transparency in everything... don't get me wrong, I don't have my tinfoil hat fused to my head or anything like that but it is good to question things... I'm not saying blockchain technology is good or bad, but that maybe people that are on here without the full comprehension of what they are sharing or maybe they have this idea coming from the 'traditional' model that they can just edit/delete whatever and be done with it like it never happened. And this steadfast-ability is just fine and dandy, in fact quite useful in terms of todays increasingly censored world, but it's also important that people be cognizant of how immutable the whole blockchain thing is and maybe think a bit through with what they post. Which they should be, anyways. It's good that steem allows the anon accounts, hopefully that can weather out the regulatory morass which is inevitable, will be interesting to see how all the 'COPPA' stuff ends up playing out on YouTube, seems like a lot of ppl are self-censoring already and maybe decentralized platforms will be next on the radar of 'but think about the childrens...' And not like I am religious either but I find it interesting that Satoshi Nakamoto is an anagram for 'a moist satan hook'... mark of the beast it up, y'all ;) But yeah, the Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is very interesting... somehow I doubt it's Mr. Craig Wright - Vitalik doubted him off the bat and it seems like Mr. Writght can't walk the walk as well as he can talk the talk, or so I hear. Not that people really ever kinda thought it was him, at least I didn't...

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I was just discussing how awesome STEEM is as a blockchain with my girl the other day. If I invest in other currencies, I have to trade on margin to really make it anywhere. An investment in STEEM is the best investment I have made. I get to use my steem as resource credits to produce and share good content. My resource credits don't actually spend any money from my account, and they RECHARGE. If my content is good then my investment grows. Even if the market falls, I still earn just as much steem, and when the market rises again (as it will as in any market cycle.) My steem will still increase to the value that it would have held if I had produced my content when the market price was higher. I also completely agree with getting as much as you can when it's down. This is the goal of investors usually, so what a stupid move to make, pulling out all your investmemt because you have LOST money. You haven't actually lost anything. When the market cycle completes, if you sold when the value was low, ONLY THEN have you actually LOST ANYTHING!!! Cheers and good post!

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