2019 is poised to look like a fantastic year for crypto. Investors are saying 2019 is going to be a terrible year for stocks so the next best places to look at for opportunity are bonds and crypto. Of these choices crypto is the stronger option. We're just getting into a bull market for crypto despite the slight correction today.
Patreon and the banking sector have decided to go full moral panic and decided that they don't want certain types of content allowed anywhere it seems. So now we actually do have a reason that people would want to use crypto. Bypassing stupid regulations from the legacy establishments at least until they die out. which reminds me
Crypto is going to play a big role in the next wave of media sites. Steemit just needs to ramp up development to supplant tumblr.(Which is basically already dead but hey.) Bitchute the best alternative to the soon to the dieing censorious YouTube is takeing crypto and on minds which is essentially a new version of facebook already has a crypto mineing system built upon the ethereum blockchain.
So as we go through this we start to see this pattern. Originally Crypto was underground. Then people find out about crypto mostly through the ATH of bitcoin at $20000. With people then going "Well this is great but what is this for? who's useing it?" Now we see that crypto is the solution to the problem of the death of the ad based internet.
People don't like ads. Im willing to bet that a lot of people who use steemit use adblock for this reason. However when adblock is on and a site requires ads for revenue they don't make money because you aren't exposed to the ads. But when the site makes money from crypto their value is tied to that coin. If that site is worth using then that site's coin will be worth money.
For crypto in 2019 one of two things is going to happen.
Crypto will skyrocket in value due to the paradigm shift in the internet.
Crypto will stay stagnant in preperation for the mass adoption of the comeing paradigm shift.
Both situations are fantastic for Steemit and crypto as a whole.