I can feel it coming. This is not meant to be trading or investment advice, but I think we need to begin to prepare for a large influx of people and perhaps money. Let's just imagine for a bit how this MIGHT end up playing out.
We've been slowly growing our user base and meanwhile infrastructure and other improvements are taking place. Hardfork 20 and the ability to grow more quickly, should be upon us soon. Some of the past year has been frustrating as a decentralized community struggled to find our way, sort out our culture and various ideas of how the platform should grow. If you think it is frustrating now, wait until we have a massive influx of people.
I think it might have been nice if we had more time to prepare and mature a bit more, but I see signs that it is coming sooner rather than later. It will be our job to set the culture, help the end users and still maintain our own growth.
Are you ready?
Let me tell you why I think it is going to happen soon. By soon I mean in the next few months, with ramping up beginning immediately.
Signs:
- The level and type of comments my blog has been getting. The improvement is night and day, we have serious minnows now. Gone are the days of broken English comments and whiny, begging new-users. This group is serious. They have accepted this isn't going to be easy and they are ready to fight for their share of Steem. I am actually receiving high quality engagement on nearly every post. The end-users are different. They are realistic, intelligent and articulate. They read, engage, ask real questions. I rarely get a bunch of spam anymore. When the new-users contact me in the comments or on Discord, it isn't "Hi Sir, you help me?" It is now thoughtful questions, and people looking to make this work. Night and day!
- The quality of the Introduce yourself posts is also improving, again this batch is different. Many are already Content Creators coming from other platforms, they understand marketing, engagement and are asking for advice (not money)
- The "Other Platforms" are having a difficult time with bad press, censorship and privacy concerns, the marketplace is overdue for new platforms.
- I am hearing and seeing Steem references everywhere including Facebook, Twitter and it seems even Crypto-Twitter is starting to take notice.
- Ned is communicating with us and also taking the show on the road
- We are getting positive media attention
- We are getting close to the next hardfork. (I don't look at Github nor have any inside information) I just feel that excitement building.
- It is already happening, but when the ball gets rolling it could get kind of wild.
- Lot's of projects are being developed and many of them are quite serious.
- We are having more price fluctuations that don't seem to be tied directly to the Crypto Global Market Cap.
What will happen next?
I don't know for sure, I have to guess also, but I imagine suddenly there will be a new batch of users pounding at the door and wondering how they can earn Steem. Many of these users will be coming from other platforms and they will have the maturity to expect this to be hard and time consuming and expensive. After all they have already built a base elsewhere. I don't know what will come first, new money or new users, but I suspect the users will come first. It doesn't matter because whichever one comes first the other will follow.
When they land they will be looking to the community to decide how to conduct themselves and what to do. Will you model hard work, persistence and optimism or envy and drama? Whichever path you choose someone will play the other role.
When the pond gets bigger so does the talent and visibility may become even harder. In my opinion it would be a good idea to set the expectations that this is hard, it is meant to be hard and there will not now or ever be any chance that all someone has to do is show up and earn.
Some current users will feel threatened by the influx of new talent and competition. They will expect to keep their current status and some will be disappointed. Others will support and celebrate successes and play a role in helping to onboard new-users. The second group will become natural leaders and mentors, the Sherpa's of the platform.
I will not go into any details, but it is pretty easy to predict who will be who.
If the money comes first, there will be a mad fight for it, lots of drama and whales and witnesses who want to ensure that "Scammers" don't get rewards, which I have come to think of as "Anyone other than those who are used to getting it". All you have to do is remember $12 SBDs to predict who will be happy to have money flow into the overall economy and who will want to control where it goes.
The bid bots will be overwhelmed and will become a tool for spending money to gain visibility and the competition will be tough and the expectations will change.
The whales and the dolphins will be unable to support the new users and people will have to build networks and communities and support and grow with each other as the numbers could be overwhelming for the current amount of stakeholders we have that are actively involved in the community. (Hint, start working on your network now!)
The influx will also bring new development teams, money and talent to our "Builders" there will be lots of competition for new platforms and enhancements. Things will be growing and changing more often. New Investors will bring teams and experience in with them. Our advantage is we know the platform and are already moving through the learning curve.
Are you feeling the FOMO yet? I am. I am also beginning to plan and decide how to handle it. I think things could get a bit messy as well as exciting. I like to imagine how it might go, so I can choose how to behave as it begins instead of reacting as things change.
Tomorrow I will talk about some strategies for handling big changes and an influx of competition.
Disclaimer: I am totally speculating and writing about my gut instincts in this post, again, I have no special inside information nor is this meant to be trading or investment advice.
Do you consider where we might be headed and what will happen next? Tell me your thoughts below.
I like the way Team Steemit / @Ned are building this platform first and then promote it to the world!
Most coins / tokens are all hype, Steem on the other hand has many real usecases, which are awesome btw!
This is an excellent point and one I hope "Crypto" is about to discover.
Yep. I think it will start with a rise in SBD. I tend to think activity is tied to hourly wage, which is impacted more by SBD than price of steem. We'll see BTC go back up to 10k or more and with the positive press we've goteen we'll see $5 or higher SBD. That will effectively double or triple the money a blogger makes here. Not only will the new people come, but the folks who came and left when SBD went low will come back.
that's what I think kicks us off again
Thank you for resteeming this post!
I think we need Steem to rise and SBD to hold stead or slowly fall. I don't think we can ever have $10 or $100 Steem and $5 -$50 SBD.
I don't think SBD should ever have been higher than Steem except for when Steem was below $1.
Yes, I agree. Back in the "old days" steem was pegged to dollar value. I don't really know what happened, but it really should go back to how it was.
Those might have been the days when Steem was below $1. I think now people on here underappreciate Steem and overappreciate the SBD. When Steem was below $1 it was easier to support the peg.
I feel the opposite haha. Well let me clarify, I agree 100% with the strong fundamentals of steem, but I do think there is also still a strong problem of hype.
I think that as long as mediocre content is well-rewarded on Steem (and oh boy is it rewarded right now), we're in a "bubble" of sorts. TBH my gut says we'll see a bear market, I think it might be a year or two before we break fast those $8 steems.
This isn't pessimism tho I still believe strongly in the long term of steem and $20+ steems down the road
Well, I disagree. :) In a friendly way.
In fact, I think the mediocre content is already getting pushed lower and that a loud group of people just keep reinforcing the view that it is a problem. Some are just so caught up in being "right" that they aren't seeing the differences (said with respect and not in an argumentative style) It is already happening.
The fundamentals are what matters, and the fact that content creators need a new home. We can't stop that from happening. :)
If you are right, it might be better as I think the community could better handle slow growth. Time will tell. :)
We can totally agree to disagree. And we probably agree mostly because I agree the quality is rising fast on this platform.
I'm with you mate! I'm trying to do my part on one of those fundamentals by creating lots of great content & engaging the audience in the comments.
to the moon
It is getting way better. :)
I think I’m somewhere in the middle. People need to feel that quality content will be rewarded in the long run and so they’ll need to see that in action. I do see this happening right now as more initiatives pop up and some of the newer minnows understand the platform better and join us in searching for ways that everyone can benefit based on quality work and contribution. There is still a disproportionate of the reward pool moving upwards to the top and this hurts Steem it’s future prospects, which is my main issue with the bidbots as I don’t think it’s in the best interest of the ecosystem that owners are becoming some of the most powerful people on our platform. Still things are improving. Communities need to come soon and get us away from the Trending page.
Ned is doing a bit better these days with communication.
User retention is another huge issue, it doesn’t look good when such a huge percentage of accounts are dead, and we probably won’t be able to revive all those accounts from people who joined, lost interest and lost passwords, but we’ve got to make sure the new people coming in stay, and a high payout on their intro post is not the best way to do it because once you grow too big for curie and ocd, it gets a lot harder if you don’t get adopted (adopt a minnow is a much better way @whatsup, as it forms a real connection with steemians).
I think it all depends on how quickly communities come around and who benefits the most from them.
I could care less about quality content it is already coming in quickly. I recently did a contest for a small amount and the talent was mind-blowing! Very few mature people care about whether or not the rewards are perfectly awarded. As any rewards are more than most people are getting where ever they are currently working. Plus Youtube has demonitized so much, those users need a new home, and for those who haven't noticed, many are coming here! Mature content creators know and expect they have to build an audience and take responsibility for building an audience. I think the attitudes you are talking about have more to do with how some of the early adopters are.
Many of the bidbot owners are NOT the richest people on the site, in fact nearly none of them are the early miners who hold most of the wealth by FAR. This is another false idea that gets spread but rarely researched. Check out all the bots and who is running them. Again, people from other platforms will not care, they are already used to paying promotional fees, and they aren't worried about others earning more as long as they can earn as well. As I said, I have noticed this new influx of users is much more mature and less concerned about having to build an audience and compete.
We will see, I am not arguing as much as sharing my views, thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Perhaps the bidbot owners are not the richest people on the platform but they are certainly a formidable force, one which could potentially reach that level. I don’t need to debate it any further though, I know your views on it.
The one thing I want to add though is that I think mature adults generally care about who has power and how it is rewarded, it isn’t all about “me”, but rather about how the whole ecosystem functions. I see lots of quality content too, and it’s rewarded better than before, I just think we need to be diligent to make sure this trend continues.
I bet if you asked serious youtube users they would also say there is a lot of infighting and issues and that many high-quality vlogs don't get the views they deserve. What I am saying is the "Not Fair" group is everywhere, most people don't pay that much attention to it.
Here is where we argee, things are improving, but we have to quit acting like this is the only site that has a lack of fairness and infighting.
The bidbots are helping with a broader distribution. The proof is in the math. There are more people earning now than before. Our ability to get more steem in more hands is growing faster than new users. Some people are mad about how it is getting there, but it doesn't change the fact we are improving! :)
As someone from YouTube I couldn’t agree more with his comment
I am most certainly ready! Today more so than any day before on steem/steemit. Looking forward to share a bog steempress update this week or early next week :)
Just a quick additional comment: I really did like this post. The energy is so strong and positive. So I'm going to resteeem. Many blessings. And thank you so much for your support.
There's still no sign of an end to the bitcoin bear market and I think it will take something big for steem to explode before that ends. Perhaps SMT's and the hard fork will do that but I'm more inclined to think that we will have another downturn before going to new highs. This is just my gut feeling, I'm usually wrong :)
Things are looking good. I'm amazed how little spam I get here, but it may get worse. There are lots of accounts that look fake. People are reporting they get followed by these, but there's so interaction. I wonder if someone has plans for these. Meanwhile, I hope to see more real people flocking in. I've had a good chance to build up some sp, but I knew that might not last long. I can at least support good people. I see so much potential in Steemit and I want to see it achieved
A couple of points you make stick out to me. I used to get a ton of spammy comments and one or two valid ones. Now, I get mostly legitimate comments and a couple of spammy ones, so that is a plus for me as well.
I also think it will be great when the people start to move in and we have more eyes on the site. If we can create a culture of curation it will be awesome. We will be able to teach the spammers right off the bat that they need to suit up and play well, or go away. I am glad you brought that up, because it is another thing to prep for.
I think you will do well even in a crowd, and you do have a network of people who will continue to support you. Those of us who actively use the site, know who the other people are who actively use the site. :)
We're certainly entering interesting times
I don't think your predictions are far fetched, some are spot on the money.
I think now is the time for minnows and orcas to improve their base rapidly and reach a level of relative 'independence' before new entries start coming.
Invest in steem power, secure your relationships and most of all, expect the unexpected
expect the unexpected I love that! Yes.
I have most definitely noticed the rise in quality comments on my posts. It is quite refreshing to have actual conversations about my content! I have been on steem for 2 years now, and can note that the platform goes in waves, as far as popularity and price. I can say that the price fluctuations have been drastic, but there has always been higher highs and higher lows. Now is the time to accumulate, grow, and enjoy the platform.
An excellent summary of many of the good things Steem has going for it despite some of the internal issues here on the Steemit platform.
As I look at a sea of red on coinmarketcap I see a couple of beacons of hope...Binance coin up a little-yes, but more excited to see Steem has jumped to the 30 spot after being at 31-32 for a bit. They're the only 2 in the green as of this writing.
It is nice to see some cryptos moving in their own direction and not following the almighty BTC like a bunch of lost puppies. I'd really like to see Steem hit that #25 market cap rank in the next couple of months!
It seems a very good sign of steem is going against the downward trend, even it it's only rising slowly. I hope it can gain a few more places
I know it will not be easy, but as you express it you have to fight, and try to improve as much as possible, as you say "when the pond grows, so does talent and visibility can be even more difficult". Thanks for the suggestion, I will surely start working on my blog, thanks
I actually totally agree with you!
"The whales and the dolphins will be unable to support the new users and people will have to build networks and communities and support and grow with each other as the numbers could be overwhelming for the current amount of stakeholders we have that are actively involved in the community." <--- I was just saying this exact thing to someone the other day, and they said I was being negative.
But I wasn't trying to be negative, I was just being realistic. Steemit is like real life. In real life, a few people hold the majority of the wealth. It's not a shocker or anything to see that here on the platform.
Doesn't mean that we can't network, work hard and be the middle class lol.
Assuming to just come on here and make a quick buck and be a whale literally makes no sense to me. That's not how the world works.
I'm really really looking forward to hearing what your strategies are! I definitely don't want to be in the first category of people.
Agreed! We didn't leave our human nature at the door. Also, for many of us that have accounts that are around 2 years old, we didn't leap on the platform in a flurry of success. Our accounts have grown, our networks have grown and now those early friendships really matter.
Yep, I can personally attest to this. I'm all in with Steemit @whatsup. Just started getting serious Jan. 8th. And been Posting to my blog without missing a day.( quality stuff too. Not one sentence memes ;) ) While also interacting with the Community through blog Commenting and Curation.
I 'm not making a whole lot but I see the light. And the fact I have so much Passion to do this everyday...well why wouldn't you be excited :)
Cheers to a great post and cheers to steemit and cheers from one of those serious minnows who is and has been fighting and prepared to do so for a long time to come :)
With you on this
Great post! Lots to digest. I've only been here a month, but the potential for this platform to change the world is very real. It will all boil down, IMHO, to whether we have more self-interest than community-interest in the community. In the final analysis, we all win if community wins. That is FAR from a foregone conclusion, however, and the current whales will still have an awful lot to say about which emerges.
Well despite the speculation of yours the things that you have stated are in a way true and we sure will see few things that are on the way. There are many evolving in the way of getting to know or get a place out in here.
Many things will be witnessed by us let along complains and other things will as well be seen.
Hope that everything goes well and we get to see a nice and active Community out in here without a hassle.
First of all thanks for sharing this positively speculative and strong instinctive post with us, and genuinely speaking, i try to follow every bit of the updates of Steem Economy, and i am also feeling that some kind of change will come soon and my reason is due to, Steem 1 Million User base attained, Steem at consensus in Net Neutrality Panel, Steem at Korean Meetup, Ned on Bloomberg, Steem is officially praised by the Chinese government, people with strong followership joining Steemit and Dtube, a speculative word about the Good People Token (GPT) and the last but not the least, and also the most important aspect because it's associated with capability of Steem and that is Blockactivity aspect, this means, Steem is at number 1 position on the list with 48% of total Global Blockchain Transactions and one greatest thing addition to it is, Etherium is number 2 but Etherium almost used it's Blockchain space and the transactions are becoming slow, but steem is number one in transactions but still Steem is using 10 to 13% of Steem Block Space and this shows what kind of opportunities Steem can be integrated with, i am not sure but i read this point somewhere that, in emergency situation like lack of electricity, then also Steem Blockchain can be run efficiently by the electricity which is accumulated with Solar Panel. For me all these aspects are driving force and no matter, the good times are soon or later i will continue because, we cannot assume the time but we can collectively reach to the destination. Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
What couldve been is getting lost in the influx of new users, this will be their normal.
I agree that the culture is becoming less scammer and more regular folks, which is a good thing, overall.
That wont change my belief that we should still muzzle the whales and go back to super linear rewards, but the odds of that are getting slimmer.
If you missed my conversation with tim then you dont know that we couldve had superlinear rewards by standing up as a community.
The math is in our favor, if most folks were made aware, but every day new folks join and their normal makes change unlikely.
Smdh.
Im losing interest in the fight to make them aware, once the price reaches what i need it to be i will power down and beat my drum with less vote weight.
As a shower-thought, we are feeding 20 people who run the "internets" for us. And those who fill their pockets, also ruins the system to gain more with bots and etc. They are not trying to expand the network for investors.
So basically every new user will just take another cent from my share. I don't see how it will increase the value of steem/sbd if the system keeps welcoming new users and share the whole pool with them.
And in the current situation, to be able to upvote for x amount I need to invest 5000x :) :double_thumbsup:
All of the above could be wrong, I'm a little bit dizzy today.
There is still a lot of crap flowing through the nodes but slowly but surely the positive efforts and also communities are starting to build and gain the spotlight again.
It’s an interesting thing to see happen as it seems to happen without everyone noticing it. How recent months have, or have not, clouded one’s observation and perception skills defines whether one sees it or not. Last few months definitely have dealt some blows to many and here’s but hoping they can soon enough recover from that and refocus on all positive still happening. It will be needed for them otherwise they will be lost when the flood comes.
It is great to see is that it seems the momentum has shifted again and positivity is being shared more again, as well as new discovery. Is it a maturing of the die hard community? Possibly.
When HF20
finallyeventually happens the floodgates are opened because of the improved signup process that HF20 will bring with it. Those will surely be interesting weeks and many will drown in the new flood. And new leaders will indeed grab the spotlights.Interesting to see will also be how EOS’ launch, and obvious tribalism moving over there, will influence the happening on this platform. But surely expect more blogging gurus applying all tricks of the trade here. Times a’ changin’ and it’s already obvious.
Build your tribe now before it’s too late. Because the pro tribe builders are about to arrive.
I think it is going to sneak up on most who are not seeing the subtle changes! Yes, the momentum is changing and I don't pretend everything is perfect. I just see that things are changing and the entire topic is about to change. We have had the same complainers all along, but I see many new users now, who are more serious and unwilling to get involved in the what's fair debate. Every job, every school, every team, every site, has a group of people who identify and focus on problems. That will never change. I just see we are also developing a lot of new voices are ignoring that and just looking to see how they can get involved.
This is still, for now, a very small ecosystem and we have until recently had a rather static group of thought leaders.
Ups and downs, complete with their echo chambers, are normal in such small cultures.
Most important right now, especially for those who seem stuck in those echo chambers, is to rip one(self) out of that perspective and start seeing the good and new again.
With relation to Steem because otherwise the unexpected will definitely sneak upon one. With relation to life because it is the good thing to do and also prevents burn out, the last thing a (online) creator wants.
Nothing is perfect. As long as we don’t get addicted to the Kool Aid. Being able to take a step back and analyse is important, every coin has two sides.
Interesting times.
There is something more too. If you look at new things you will always see three generations:
You can see those different crews in pretty much any trend, even in bar crews, both among the team and guests btw. Internet communities have a similar cycle (altho growth to genuine mainstream traffic takes often another 2-3 years, but the population has changed already.
Steem is now approaching the third cycle. It’s somehow interestingly coincidental that that collided with EOS being pretty much ready.
You bring up some really interesting points and some things I need to consider as well.
I was going to talk about EOS, but I didn't want to trigger everyone too badly. lol
Here is my take... EOS right now is an idea, people never build problems into their ideas, so EOS will be first a disappointment. We will be hitting our stride as they are finding their problems. After that things could get dicey, but I not interested in turning much attention on EOS right away. I will be very grateful for the competition factor though.
Muh feelz is not quite there
For new people on the platform, even with great content it is absolutely impossible to earn anything unless you know a whale or is able to invest 10k USD into Steem.
Comments are shit, unless you have 3000 followers. Even then most are what I would call "advanced spam" comments. The comments look legit at first glance, but then you see it's mostly bs. That being said..in an account like yours you will see good genuine comments from real followers.
When it comes to projects being created..well..thats cool. But I don't log into Dtube. Why? Doesn't work. It works sometimes..but that's not good enough for me. It's 2018..I want shit to work every time and I want it to work perfectly. I'm sorry, but I am not going to use youtube anno 2001 or whenever it came out. :)
The other projects? parley? Dmania? Spam spam spam..plus it clogs up your blog.
All the milion accounts? How many are spam accounts used for upvoting bots? How many have multipple accounts? How many are buying accounts to sell them or invest in them?
The CEO is communicating..well..I'll be darned :) Lucky us.
I'm not really seeing anything about Steemit anywhere.
That being said, I love Steemit and the community. I think Steem is the crypto with the most utility right now as it is feeless, transacts like hell, it transacts more than all other cryptos COMBINED per day. Over 1 million per day. And I do honestly see Steem have a lot of potential in the future. As of right now though, I don't have the feelz.
But I've been wrong before..and to be honest, if there is one crypto that is actually undervalued it should be Steem. But hoping for anything higher than 10$ if we see another bull rally towards 1 trillion total mcap I think is unrealistic.
Thought provoking and cool post dear sir mister! I follow and resteem and you follow and resteem and lets kiss.
please
dear
So many good points in here. Some of which I have already discussed in other comments, but ...
I wanted to address the idea that Steem will grow into it's value. Crypto by it's very nature is unrealistic. Why think small. :) Nah, not arguing you might be right.
Playing a little bit of the devils advocate here :) I ultimately like and enjoy steemit and steem. And my tech knowledge is not the best. Grain of salt etc !
In the last few months I have also seen a huge increase in the comments everywhere and in the quality of comments, there's still copy paste comments out there but the good comments now shadow the shit tier ones and it's not only around the people that give good upvotes to comments but all over the platform too.
Your post got me pumped up ......
You live in a nice bubble ;)
Its already happening, sometimes the comment section feels like a battleground.lol
You're right tho, the main advantage we have right now is that we're early adopters who know their way around the platform.
As for the competitiveness I dont think it will become overwhelming immediately unless many current steemians stop blogging or the new steemians come in with lots of connections or beaucoup money to splurge on SP or bots.
Eventually they will be catching up tho and of course the new ones who are exceptional might leave us in dust from the begginning.
one thing that is certain is that old steemians will have to show their true colors.lol
Cheers for the motivational post :)
We got lot of exposure recently. Steem is also the only coin in green in my portfolio. I can see the tides changing.
You are absolutely right, gone are the days when nice one, good post were rampant on this platform, steemians now got the desirable orientation on how to make good comments and post and the same time, I look up to the future since the present is well defined now, we are actually making progress, I can see it coming every day. We will surely win. Thanks for sharing such informative and educative piece on here.
There is a lot of truth in your words, from my point of view I am something new in the community I have seen an exponential growth in the Hispanic community.
it is enough to only see the discord channels and the amount of people posting, promoting their posts and interacting.
It is wonderful to see how we grow, that generates confidence and attracts more investors and developers willing to make the platform grow with impetus.
What do you guys think of Steemit 2.0 on EOS, will come one day...
I think it will benefit both platforms. I think right now they have the advantage of being just an idea when it launches, it will have its own problems. At that point, I am hoping we are hitting our stride.
exciting times! looking forward to the day and how they're going to go right after the general audience
I'm doing a project called steemdaily.press -- I totally agree it's growing!
Your post was great.Your step was to surprise your judging analyzes. @whatsup
:^) oh boy did u even read?
This post has received a 19.25 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @whatsup.
I think supporting newbies is essential for growing the platform.
We desperately need new users. The more the better! But I do think its gonna get darker before we see the light.
Also I am ready, I have faith that it will exceed that amount of steemit. There is more to project objectives and so we will. I think what you are projecting not laeja much of reality. We are here to continue building steemit
Left the (often trashy) mainstream networks behind. And dediced to start from 0 here.
And yes, I sense this trend too: People are actually willing to fight for putting out the best they have.
Thanks for your predictions. I like your posts a lot.
It's good to read the perspective of someone who is here for a while and established, especially for me, as a newbie...
thanks a lot and best wishes to you!
Sam
Im excited and can see the growth coming too. Ive actually been helping almost everyone i know sign up here.
I have no clue whether you will be proved right, or how things will pan out if you are, but thanks, @whatsup, for your insight into some of the possibilities - valuable to this newbie and gratefully received. I'm here to contribute (once I've finished looking around) what I consider to be interesting content and to see how I'm likely to be rewarded. If I get even a sniff that I could develop some kind of income stream I will stick around and post very frequently. Interesting that you say the quality is actually improving - I had wondered if things were maybe going in the opposite direction, so what you say is encouraging. I don't think 'competition' should be feared as long as it increases the amount of good content, because surely that can only raise the reputation of the platform as a source of valuable material for the end user, in or out of Steemit. As to whether, in your explosion scenario, the money or the numbers will come first, again I have little insight, though it struck me there's no reason it has to be first one, then the other - can't both thing happen together?
I have little appetite for the politics or inner working of Steemit, but as I settle in I would be very happy to do what I can to help others and in my small way support the community at large. Although there are doubtless many here to game the system for what they can get out of it, I've already 'met' several people whose main interest is in making it the great medium it could become if things go well, and I'm sure there are many others around.
Thanks again - I'll be looking out for the sequel tomorrow.
I love your "gut instincts" and I think they are quite valid. People the world over are looking for what we have here. I do believe, as you, that we are at the right place at the right time. But this is not just a monetary thing, I'm feeling it's much more than that. It has to do with human potential, with transformation, and a rise in consciousness. I feel so incredibly blessed to be here now.
As far as leading and mentoring I think that too will become the standard. Cooperative Abundance (posting about this tomorrow) will be the reality here. Not for everyone of course but for those who believe in a new reality: the awakening of human potential. Putting fear in the rearview mirror. Many blessings.