#anhouraday - What's happening with Steem and the crypto world?

So look, I'm not one who really cares about the prices of cryptocurrency.

The cryptocurrency market is much different to what is happening in the cryptocurrency space.

Overall, the market cap is dropping. But I know that I haven't sold at a loss, and I know my friends haven't sold at a loss, and really as @chbartist says, if you don't need to, why would you?

And people are learning more about what decentralised technologies such as blockchain and cryptocurrency can do for us, and they don't want to see it fail either.

The fact is, 2018 is a pretty exciting year for blockchain

I've only been observing the crypto space since September 2017, so I'm very much a newb; but what decentralising our technologies means for us synced with my brain quickly. Yes, I do believe decentralising things will solve a lot of our problems, and yes I understand that I don't understand how much work, trial and error goes into this happening correctly - all I can do is be grateful for those working towards the future we all want, and educate those that I meet on what I know.

In my eyes, there's so much happening in the crypto space and I've never felt better about it. Even during the December/Jan pump, we all knew it wasn't natural. It wasn't real money coming in to the market; and that's okay-ish.

Decentralised applications are really starting to come along. EOS mainnet has just launched, Civil will be launching their journalism market place very soon; and it's no longer just developers that can interact with and create from blockchains. The Flight Plan. are building tools to bridge the gaps obstructing mass adoption of crypto; they've even built a design tool for you to create dApps on Ethereum's testnet - meaning you can design dApps without having to code, which is pretty cool. Their founder, who made cryptocats before cryptokitties, I met last night, comes from back-end software engineering and wants to apply design ops to the blockchain space, which is pretty cool.

At the blockchain event I mentioned last night, there were people from health, AI and even UX design, and they're all looking for how blockchain can solve real problems.

People outside of software are really starting to get genuinely interested, and there's not really a better time for it. The mainstream is learning about different kinds of blockchains and thinking about where the balance is between private and public chains.

Hang tight friends!

I'm not saying everything will be ro$ey next week, though it could; at the end of the day, trading markets pulls at your human emotions in ridiculous ways, and the more you can practice awareness of this, and laugh at this or maintain rational decision making, the more you and we win.