Goooood Morning Steemit!
My name is Thomas Hunt and I'm the host of the MadBitcoins show . MadBitcoins is all about celebrating the digital currency Bitcoin, but it's also about humor and having fun. I've been on Shark Tank, defended bitcoin against space aliens and Max Keiser thinks I'm his son. I've made more than 600 daily episodes of MadBitcoins, but this is my very first steemit post. Please allow me to introduce myself...
In addition to MadBitcoins, I'm also one of the founders of the World Crypto Network and the host of The Bitcoin Group, a weekly discussion show that, you guessed it, is all about Bitcoin. Thanks to all my work supporting Bitcoin I've been able to take a job in San Francisco working for the Bitcoin Startup Purse.io -- where you can save 15% off Amazon, just for spending Bitcoin, or Steem, which you could trade for Bitcoin and then spend at Purse (grand pause) dot io -- Sorry about that, obvious plug and had to be done.
While at the World Crypto Network, I assisted on a project called ProTip, which is an open source chrome extension that allows you to automatically reward content creators with Bitcoin. All you have to do is install the free plugin (http://ProTip.is), deposit a few bucks in bitcoin, set your weekly allowance and whenever ProTip identifies a bitcoin address on any page that you're browsing it will time how long you spend on that page and reward the content that you enjoy the most at the end of the week. ProTip is open source and free and does not track where you send your money. I hope you'll try it today and help us spread the word. ProTip is not a company and has not raised any venture capital, yet thanks to a $15,000 indiegogo campaign and bitcoin donations, we were able to create working software that does exactly what we said it would do. Our goal is to reward content creators and I hope you will join us, at ProTip.is.
I recently learned more about Steem when I moderated The Great Steemit Debate with Blake Miles and Tone Vays:
Special thanks to Tone and Blake for allowing me to moderate their debate. I think it was a very fair debate with both sides given equal opportunities to present their cases. While I am uncertain for the long term future of steem, in the short term it seems to be providing phenomenal rewards for people who create content, which just happens to be what I do. That being said, Blake also shared some of his Steem reward with me and thanks to this additional funding, I was able to purchase a ticket to Outside Lands (a three-day concert festival in San Francisco). This weekend I'll be seeing LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead (!!!), The Muppets -- featuring Animal on the drums and Dr. Teeth with his band the Electric Mayhem and many many more. It should be an incredible time, and I owe it to you Steemit. That's why I'll be periscoping, vining, tweeting and yes -- even blogging -- Outside Lands -- LIVE! -- this weekend -- brought to you by Steemit!
I hope that by creating content such as blogs and videos, it will show you how grateful I am for what you're doing to help reward content creators for their work. I hope you'll enjoy joining me virtually this weekend. :)
What would you like to see me do this weekend at Outside Lands? Share your ideas in the comments below.
Confirming that this is me, with my twitter account:
Basic media plan so far will be to spread early posts on my Snapchat: Follow me (madbitcoins) and then collect the days snaps into videos. I'll also be tweeting, vining, periscoping and hopefully even blogging using the steem mobile interface. I look forward to pushing the internet to it's limits and providing you with the best content I can. The most bang for your buck. Thanks again for your donations and for supporting independent content creators like myself.
@madbitcoins Welcome to Steemit! This was the 1st interview I saw of you on youtube in 2015 lol the ChangeTip days!
Nice! From last year's coin congress. Wish I'd had time to go and do more interviews this year, but just too busy busy busy. ;)
Looks like my guess was right - Demand for Steem is increasing among Online Advertisers. Welcome to Steemit. :-)
really MAD man!
Giddy up!
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes
Thanks for the outside confirmation :)
Hello from Portland OR. This is one heck of an experiment, ain't it?
yeah, it seems like a great idea for sure. Hopefully it will turn out to be something great.
Yo Maddie! Welcome to the club! Superverified :D
I have put you on SteemyOrNot.com
Hope you are OK with that... Hotttnesssssss
Read more about the new app here on Steemit in my latest blog.
cheers, signing off.
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
Hey.. don't I know you from somewhere? :P
Welcome to the party!
Hello @madbitcoins aka Thomas or Tom :) Real nice to see you here, now that you're here I'll be able to link you to a future article I'm going to post and where I talk about the World Crypto Network logotype I did some time ago for that project. :) Hope to see you soon and please
oh, and Teach Tone Vays a little bit about #Steemit because he made fool out of himself on that debate.... cheers!
Great point @brunopro . Very entertaining to watch Tone try to debunk SteemIT.
Lol yes it was.
Welcome MadSteems! :)
@bravenewcoin welcomes you @madbitcoins! Nice to see you bring your show on here. Any assist you need find me in steemit.chat my handle is thecryptodrive. Steem on!
This post is going to the moon!
Yeee Ha! Welcome Thomas. My 9 year old son and I have been following you for some time now. Lets get the MAD party started.
Had a difficult time posting this.... I had smart quotes in my document and it wasn't allowing me to post. Please update the error message to let people know about the evil of smart quotes and spread the word!
I gave you your first STEEM penny... Always remember... ;-)
👍nice post @madbitcoins
Please check out my friend BTCTravis's introductory post:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@btctravis/hello-from-the-san-francisco-bitcoin-group
Travis will be joining me this weekend and helping me document "Mad Bitcoins goes to Outside Lands (Sponsored by Steemit)" -- thanks to your previous donations to the Great Steemit Debate! Thanks again for helping me attend this truly amazing concert. :)
That's right Madbitcoin fans, we will be hitting up Outsidelands all weekend. I'm leaving for it soon myself. Long time Madbitcoins viewers will remember me from the skilled and deft camera work during his CoinCongress 2015 interviews.
Welcome to Steemit @madbitcoins. I'm glad to see you here. Great work moderating that Steem debate the other day.
Also, Purse.IO is an excellent service, I frequently get 20-30% discounts on goods from Amazon on Purse.
Goood! Welcome here!
And this is me :)
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Welcome
I upvote U
It's great to see you on here! Looking forward to catching up soon!
I'll also be joined by my friend BTCTravis for Outside Lands -- we'll be blogging, periscoping, vining, etc to share our good fortune with you! Follow us on Steemit, Twitter, ETC to keep up! :)
Learn more about Outside Lands here: http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/
You've certainly embraced the opportunity. Best of luck!
Thomas, it is great to see you here. Steem may crash, the entire Steemit platform may be unsustainable, but take advantage of it while you can! Nothing wrong with that. Never turn down a chance to make free Bitcoin. My latest Steemit post can be found here: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@bitcoinmeister/cryptocurrency-psychology-bitcoin-short-term-mindset-disease-and-irrational-feelings-about-the-other-ethereum-community
Dont see it crashing anytime soon. It is really far more protected from crashing than just about any crypto.
I'm keeping an eye on the incentives design as well as how Steem is doing on the exchange as indicators of long term health. I'm not liking the uber voting power whales have, nor do I think that 'getting in early' on the new post popularity contest is beneficial to the platform. Why not try rewarding voters much later, after a post shows some staying power and quality? Some better combinations need to get implemented ASAP.
You we're one of the first youtubers that I stumbled across, when I first discovered bitcoin over 2 years ago.
Welcome to Steemit, This truly is a wonderful platform :)
Welcome, @madbitcoins! I know you from Twitter. The posting box takes a bit of getting used to, but it may be refined over time. I'm a big fan of yours, and I'm happy to see you here. When can we expect a video about STEEM?
Thanks for joining me here from twitter. I plan to make a few videos about Steem in the next few weeks as soon as I can find time. I also had an idea to do a live chat on Blab where guests from the audience could come on and discuss their experience with Steem. Got a lot of ideas to test the waters here and see if you guys enjoy the content that I create. :)
Glad to have you here @madbitcoins. Bitcoin and STEEM go hand in hand here on STEEMIT.COM. The point is to further spread the idea of decentralization with the ultimate goal of empowering the individual to determine his own financial Health and well being.
Full $TEEM Ahead!
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It about damn time you earn some money @madbitcoins for your hard earned work and years of dedicated content!!! I'll be up-voting every one of your posts.
Thank you! I enjoyed making the videos (and doing anything I can to spread the word about Bitcoin and other exciting new cryptocurrencies). Thanks for the upvotes and for watching! :)
Welcome!
Loving Steem and Steemit!
I also invest in Dogecoins and Goldcoins and NEM. Recently i started investing in Gamecredits!
Check this out
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@splatterhaus/are-gamecredits-the-future-of-buying-extra-content-skins-for-online-gaming
hey there!
nice to meet you @madbitcoins and welcome to steemit 8]
you can do a vlog about steem with some people for example
LCD Soundsystem & Radiohead (!!!) Yeah!!!
It´s happening!
great welcome video. you the best
I'm new to crypto currencies, and feel overwhelmed. /cry
These are good!
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@splatterhaus/are-gamecredits-the-future-of-buying-extra-content-skins-for-online-gaming
No clue about bitcoins but it is on the agenda :)
Great channel glad you made some steem dollars! Welcome.
I've watched your episodes, from time to time.. Good to see you here.. welcome aboard :)
Welcome Mad Bitcoin
$1,155.50? :-o Is that a bug? Seems like a few people can give away so much.
I think the more "Steem power" you have the more your votes count. Hoping some "whales" enjoy my content and support me. :)
Looks like they already have. Good job.
Welcome, and great to see word is getting out on the interwebs. Moonshot is coming...
Thanks so much! Saw all the fun everyone was having over here, and figured I should give it a try. Thanks for the warm reception. :)
Teacher tell me whats my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through mee....
Its a very very,,, MAD WORLD
Love that song and love me some Donnie Darko. Somewhere there's a Bitcoin version of that song but I can't find it....
Noah wyley was just at my work with rebecca romaine and vanessa williams filming a scene yesterday
I hope you guys can come up with more such debates in future, It was a great one
Thanks! I enjoyed moderating it and trying to make sure it was as fair as I could.... What kind of topics should we discuss if we had a new debate? My current idea is to get my friend from Yours and to do a Yours v. Steemit comparison... Might be better to do it closer to Yours launch though, so users could compare and contrast both sites....
I really enjoyed debate in high school and it was fun to host my own debate... :)
you r welcome mr madbitcoin
Welcome! Looking forward to the new content that you'll be publishing :)
nice))
All the you-tuber will start with a big wallet. Good to be a celebrity :)
I saw you pop up on Steemit.chat now I know why :P
When you can stop by TheDailySteemit.
:)
Thanks! I'll check it out. Be sure to check out my posts this weekend about Outside Lands! Should be epic! :)
Outside Lands sounds epic! :) I'll make sure to post about it there also. Awesome job Thomas!
Welcome MBs!
Thank you!
welcome. Excellent post!
You mad my day. :-)
Welcome Thomas! Been a fan of your show for a long time. Good to see these big personalities discovering the power of Steemit!.
Nice! I follow you already in Youtube and Twitter. Good to see you landing in Steemit :)
Oh shiiiit!! Now we are talking. What up @madbitcoins? I was wondering when the heavyweights were going to enter this space.
Morning too @madbitcoins
Good stuff man, I used to watch your shows frequently. Keep it up!
Hi @madbitcoins, welcome to the party!
What I'd like to see from your weekend at Outside Lands is a fun photo of you with Animal beating on the drums. Wearing that spiffy hat, of course. :)
Have fun and try not to get convention crud!
I love this Steve ansd will make it a point to attend your show . I am editor of an online press service U.S. News press and my name is Robert Stone.