How do we understand the impact of Steemit CEO @Ned's new SMT whitepaper in 2 minutes? Will you read this post for a quick summary in the most basic terms of the whitepaper release yesterday at https://smt.steem.io/ because knowing what to do next will be simple?
Steem SMT To Do List!
- Buy and hold Steem! This announcement already drove the price up 30% yesterday and as more traders, investors, spectaculars, and Steem users understand what it means, the demand for Steem is likely to drive the price consistently over the next few months. I estimate it the Steem price will be over $10 within 6 months.
- Post on Steemit! While earnings today might look like $1, as demand continues to go up, what is paid today as $1 in Steem and SBD when converted all to Steem Power will actually be worth $10 and much more in a relatively short time. Write one post a day regardless of earnings and the rewards will continue to stockpile over the coming months!
- Bring friends and family to Steem! I still remember my friend Terry Davis getting me in on Facebook in 2005 which led me to dating several girls and starting my business. Our friends and family treasure the moments when we get them in on something big before most of us know about it. When Steem goes crazy, our friends and family will thank us for the rest of our lives for getting them in early!
- Keep learning more about Steem! It is complicated enough to merit conversation which is great for sharing and going viral. Even with all I do on Steem, I learn new things every day.
- Turn SBD rewards into Steem on the marketplace at https://steemit.com/market because the higher the Steem price goes, the less SBD will buy of Steem.
- Go all in on Steem part time or full time. I gave up making more online video courses to do Steem full time in August 2017 which has reduced the income from my business already $10,000 to $20,000 a month because I have no new video courses to sell. I am taking this huge leap of faith instead of simply doing what I am sure will make more money in the short term because Steem is the opportunity of a lifetime! Those of us going all in before Steem gets into mass adoption will be able to serve here the rest of our lives in empowering each of us to honestly share our life story and experiences here which is a gift humanity desperately needs in a time where so many of us do not feel free to tell the truth to the world about our lives. This is why I show up to Steem each day and this whitepaper provides good evidence that this is a wise decision.
Smart Media Tokens for Dummies!
- ICO for $1 on Steem! Smart Media Tokens will allow anyone with even minimal coding knowledge to launch a new token for $1 empowering the 99.999% of the world before that was not up for doing an ICO on Ethereum to launch on Steem. A huge part of the Bitcoin and Ethereum price increase lately has been ICOs launching on Ethereum. We are now tapping into the same power on Steem!
- Steem comments widget! Blog commenting is one of the most annoying parts about blogging online. Existing systems all are different and almost every blog requires a unique account. Commenting is often a complete waste of time and is worth nothing most of the time while occasionally perhaps getting a great opportunity or response. This new whitepaper shows how we can make one rewarding comment system consistently used on WordPress, Blogger, or any platform willing to integrate with Steem.
- Monetize existing communities! Smart Media Tokens will allow any existing community such as the New York Times or Tim Ferriss's blog or the Bitcoin subreddit or Medium to bring the features of Steem online without having to use steemit.com or the Steem cryptocurrency other than to buy in.
- Motivation for exchanges to add Steem! Coinbase, Bitstamp, Kraken, and all the USD or fiat exchanges make decisions on what to add based on an estimation of how much work it would be to add the new currency plus what reward will be received in terms of new users and revenue. Adding Smart Media Tokens to Steem provides huge motivation for users to transact in Steem and naturally for exchanges to want to have a USD, EUR, or fiat direct exchange with Steem. Every exchange adding Steem is likely to equal a big price increase as it has for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Dash, etc.
I hope this post is helpful to see the impact of this whitepaper based on the time I spent reading it at https://smt.steem.io/.
Thank you to @fitinfun for motivating me to create this after posting this comment yesterday.
Please Jerry, write a post called "Ned's new token scheme for idiots and what you need to do now (or not)" so we might have a clue. We are counting on you from the fog of steemit. Thank you!"
Further Reading on SMT
Smart Media Tokens: Why We're Doing It [VIDEO] by @ned at https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/smart-media-tokens-why-we-re-doing-it-video
Dissecting the Smart Media Token (SMT) Whitepaper (an Easy Overview) by @nanzo-scoop at https://steemit.com/smt/@nanzo-scoop/dissecting-the-smart-media-token-smt-whitepaper-an-easy-overview
How Steemit Smart Media Tokens can empower current influencers to become brands in their own right by @teamhumble at https://steemit.com/smt/@teamhumble/how-steemit-smart-media-tokens-can-ultimately-empower-current-influencers-to-become-brands-in-their-own-right
The Day the Paywalls Died: How Steem’s Smart Media Token Saved My Family’s Newspaper by @donkeypong at https://steemit.com/smt/@donkeypong/the-day-the-paywalls-died-how-steem-s-smart-media-token-saved-my-family-s-newspaper
Love,
Jerry Banfield
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@craig-grant thank you very much for setting me as your witness proxy today at https://steemit.com/~witnesses ! With you being one of the top Steem Power holders, I am honored you are trusting me to make your witness votes for you! How may I help you?
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Thanks @jerrybanfield for all these good suggestions and honestly this is my best moment since joining steemit.
I might not only be bringing my family to steemit but entire town if possible. I need to start a mass campaign as fast as possible.
People shouldn't be complaining about unemployment in Nigeria when a money making instrument like steemit exist.
Once again thanks for the simplification of SMTs
You're welcome @bania and I appreciate you taking your time to share the value of the post to you as well as planning to bring your whole town along!
Thanks Jerry! For us Steem
Advocates this is exciting news!!
Great summary! We all gotta learn together, sounds very exciting !!
Hey jerrybanfield,
Thanks for the great content
I'm still unclear on how this would bring value to steem. So if smart tokens are created by the New York times they can use it to monetize their posts? so if they wrote an article they can get upvoted and make money from it?
So how does that help the owners of STEEM POWER. I assume more users but do they need steem to access the steeemit blockchain for the utilization of the SMT's.
Yes by increasing the value of Steem to USD and therefore the worth of interest paid on Steem Power and the amount of SBD received on an upvote!
Yes whoever creates a token can accept Steem to pay for it and cash out during an ICO. Then whoever has the token can post and upvote to earn more to sell on the market. Basically anyone can make their own community like Steem which is worth hundreds of millions today and probably billions soon!
Okay, how do I add this to my forum?
We have been lacking in membership, which has come in bursts and lacked a consistent presence and I truly believe this is what is missing from our platform. I have said to my colleagues from day one, I would like to somehow reward our members for their loyalty, but was unsure how until this point.
If you want to read a little more on how it works, you can try HERE.
But I think @jerrybanfield does a great job of answering most questions in his comments section.
Thank you @jerrybanfield for this as I am one of those who was not educated about these smart tokens! Very helpful!
Sincerely,
@joeparys
You're welcome Joe!
Thanks for a thorough yet simple guide to SMTs.
You're welcome and thank you for noticing @donkeypong!
Thank you, Jerry! I am laughing at your callout for me and so happy you replied so soon to sooth my soul! Seriously. I saw the price jump and I know you are all excited, but I was so confused and disturbed this morning.
I still don't understand half of what you wrote, but I will tell you what I will do because of your post. I'm so happy it's just more of what I have been doing!
My minnow vote went from $.013 to $.015 in less than 24 hours. Now I feel very happy! You all keep tokening and blockchaining and I will just keep blogging and posting and working with the minnows down here where we know nothing of such antics :)
I love you more now :)
Who has made a Steem Comment Widget/Plugin that works with Wordpress???
The whitepaper explains adding a protocol to make this possible. Within a few months, the protocol should be added to Steem and then I am sure a developer will get a comment widget done quickly also!
Thank you!!!
Thumbs up for the new avatar!
Can't wait. I heard you talking about this on your videos yesterday (watched them last night) -- this is going to be a game changer for real; and I try to use that term sparingly ---- I heard you mention steem comment widgets; Cannot wait to make my own SMT for my audience on my blogs; This is exciting stuff ...
i was just reading that white paper 10 minutes ago :-)
This is AWESOME! I been talking about STEEM to everyone i know, people dont believe me sadly. There is so little talk about STEEM everywhere. I think this move will make STEEM much much more appealing. I'm a believer in STEEM and already own some, will get even more to support. I spread the word to people i know as well.
@jerrybanfield Your doing a fantastic job promoting the platform, it would be great if you were also doing the same in Twitter, most people read there first about news. I hope we can change that one day but for now :D
Awesome idea maybe I will try some Twitter ads!
Thanks allot Jerry! Spread the word and lets take back the power from these big corps. I felt so bad about all the content you put on youtube without getting anything back. Here you get what you deserve! Good content = profit!
That's why you get so much on pretty much every blog you make!
I know. I'm having a similar experience. It's so funny how skeptical people are. "But where does the money come from?" they ask.
Hmmmmm. Well, take an economics class, then call me in the morning.
I get the exact same question, I say where does company shares come from. Also how much money is Facebook worth? That worth is now shared with the users. It usually makes them rethink.
If people see more commercial and promotions I'm sure they will be more open to it. Also sadly thanks to all the scams people are generally very close minded and I can understand it. The best thing is to not start work the money part or they just ignore what else you say after wards.
Ps. I made a friend invest yesterday :)
Thank you great post
Thank for the post @jerrybanfield, it's a little motivational. So if I got it corectly it's not only steem power that increases in price, if I change 1 SBD today for ~1 STEEM and tomorrow STEEM is worth 5$ I can sell it for 5$? Asking this because i thought only Steem Power increases in value, at least thats what I understood from forums/groups so far.
Yes! SBD stay around a dollar while Steem will go to $10 or more soon!
Exactly!
If you buy 1 STEEM with 1.47SBD as much as the conversion is right now, and STEEM's value rises to 5SBD tomorrow, then tomorrow you can sell your 1 STEEM for 5SBD.
Thank you for the fast answer, I need to start keeping my money converted into Steem and not leave it as SBD.
If you plan on staying for the long run, STEEM POWER is the best investment to make. If you want to keep your money "in liquid form" instead, then STEEM is imo better than SBD.
Well I will invest some $ pretty soon, but once I get some profit I want to cash out to get myself a new laptop, after that I'll be all in for Steem Power, I'll use Steem because it's easyer to cash out. But I will probably get enough Steem to get a laptop in 1 year +.
Well by creating content on Steemit you are paid 50% in "liquid cash" and 50% in STEEM POWER anyway, so you might aswell just stick this ratio so you have enough left at all times to cash out if needed ^.^
Yea gonna do that and since Steem was up and down these days once it gets low again I'll change SBD to Steem in case it explodes one day and keep some SBD just to use randowhale/minnowbooster.
Thanks @jerrybanfield for writing the timely blog on SMT. I like the summary overall. Also, thanks for taking the initiative for advertising SMT to bigger audience.
i uptvoted your articels there are al great i wil invest same steem like you this weeks:D
i was looking at your video about SMT when I saw this post. LOL
This is a great post. AND if most of the techies on Steemit would actually write more articles like this for us non-techies (😊)I think it would help steem take off even more. Part of the big problem with crypto in general is that it is always too technical for the general public to understand. Excellent @jerrybanfield excellent ✌🏾
Thank you Mel!
I've dropped most my other efforts for steem also. I love building a platform that we collectively have steak in! :)
Nice @inventor16 happy you are investing more time with us in addition to all that you have invested in Steem Power! I just saw your comment here and appreciate you continuing to follow my posts!
Interesting
As usual very informative article. Thanks
I still need to look more into this. I think I might read the white paper when I am traveling next week. I still cringe at the fact of an ICO.
GREAT METAPHOR !!! !!! - )))
STEEM'S FUTURE all set = "filled with" BLANK PAGES - )))
... for the WORLD to FILL, to 'write' the STORY OF STEEM !! - ))
Was this your 'intention' ?? - ))
or .. were you being sarcastic ?? - ))
ha ha - ))
lovelovelove )))
greb'Z )
We live for the blank page.
The BLaNK CAN-v'AS !! - ))
OH YEAH !!! - )))
Thanks Jerry for your enthusiasm, as always
Jerry, Thanks one more time for the commitment and all efforts you do for our community! I hope that you can feel our support too. Three months ago after one of the videos you have posted I have decided to create an account and start investing in steem. I have no doubts in steem future. Thank you and steem on!
Hey @jerrybanfield how can i launch my own token for my research project?
Please suggest.
Love you
@juliawilliams
@jerrybanfield You have me convinced and now it is up to me to make my Future whatever I want my Future to be. One Day at a Time we will do this together and yes the Train is leaving the Station and we are on Board. It is Very Exciting. STEEM On !!!
great guy... @jerrybanfield or bringing his update to us as always... my true steemit steemian.. your presence here has been very valuable for us... @ned is doing the needful.. for me steemit is a full time job and although i am relatively new and still learning but am encouraged to keep up steeming hot because of future projections and innovative brains like @ned ..
thanks once more Jerry for bringing this up to us...
Succinct summary of some of the benefits of SMTs as well as Steemit - thank you for this.
Very true, Steemit is abuzz, very exciting! (-:
Wow, this are great news Jerry! Seems we are heading your 10$ target now. Cheers!
Steem is holding on strong since yesterday.
What a way to see how one situation can change a lot.
Keep on steemit @jerrybanfield
Wow.. I'm already following Steem SMT To Do List!
I can't wait for SMT. It's gonna be a hit. Thanks for sharing @jerrybanfield.
I'm interest with your post @jerrybanfield
Can I re-post with using my language, Bahasa Indonesia?
Because too many dummies in my country, included me . . . :-)
Every day i learn a bit more. Thanks @jerrybanfield
@jerrybanfield thank you for this quick explanation. It looks we're really at the beginning of something awesome here. I like your teaching style and got into steem because of you courses about steem that I completed 100% already. Once I get the hang of it more, next step is becoming a witness.
Thank you @jerrybanfield for this detailed explanation. Loved the way you have complied the post. You have been an inspiration through your YouTube videos and now on Steemit you are taking us along with you on the journey. Thank you :)
Thank you @jerrybanfield for this good news, for it is a helpful information about SMT.
thank you once again.
Nice share
I'm glad to see you're making money now and trust the future of steem (I trust it too), however:
Gamble: "To bet on an uncertain outcome, as of a contest. To take a risk in the hope of gaining an advantage or a benefit."
Invest: "To commit money or capital in order to gain a financial return."
Gambling is entertainment, investing is business. Investors are risk-averse, while gamblers are risk-seekers.
Have been following since you moved to steem... you are a speculator and a gambler, because you cannot be 100% sure it will work.
Don't be too greedy man, don't spend "all" your income into steem and save some for a disaster recovery, because you never know what awaits you tomorrow.
Thanks @jerrybanfield
Thanks for the quick breakdown Jerry, that's on time my friend. I am going to be buying some Steem today in fact, so good call.
Have a great day. :-)
wow 1$ for token creation is very cheap , the current fee on waves platform is 5$ and I already thought that is very cheap.
Nice ideas.
you really work hard to educate others ,, weldone jerry
Thank you very much for your hard work and dedication @jerrybanfield
I have just watched you over YouTube Live
You are just a great human being
STM has a great future along Steem
Thanks to @ned
Keep it up
Jerry sir your every post is very interesting and helpful. I like your post. I am a fan of your. I flow every time
Thank you.
I like to invest steem:)
As you mentioned, bring friends and family member to steem. Yes i am doing that , i am inviting my friends and told them future is in steem. thanks for sharing this post.
I guess they don't listen to you.
great idea bro @maruf121