Have No Fear, Pac Man is Here

Wait, Pac Man? Yes, Pac Man.

While browsing through the wonderful Steem Projects website, I came across this little gem: a Pac-Man emulator that pays you in steem if you get a high score. It's a fun use of Steem and yet another reminder that this Steem blockchain is so much more than steemit.com.

A lot of people seem to be getting frustrated with the bid bot system, and I don't blame them. The idea of posting great content and having it get curated to the top, only to see people paying hundreds of dollars worth of SBD to get something into trending, is frustrating. It might not be the future we imagined when we first heard about steem.

And yet, 40 years ago, you put your hard earned quarter into an arcade game to play some Pac-Man. Today, you can play it and get paid!

There are a couple hundred projects you can look at on the Steem Projects website. Poke around a bit.

Steem is an amazing blockchain project that is massively undervalued. I'm not going to "call" a huge price increase or anything here-I have no idea what the future price action of steem is: nobody does. But the fact is, we have an operating blockchain that is unique in its "Proof of Brain" inflation system. This blockchain is being experimented upon by a lot of developers, and anyone can get involved.

Finally, if steem does take off and become the successful platform we expect with tens of millions of users, there will be vastly more competition for the rewards pool. We may one day look back at getting 1 steem or 1 SBD for a post and think of that the same way I think of being able to mine Ether a couple years ago-a block every couple days.

Now is the time to buckle down, hone your craft, keep posting the good stuff, meet new friends, and try to avoid collateral damage while a few whales duke it out. Our job is not to worry about them, but to keep showing the internet how incentivizing interactions on social media can create non toxic comment boxes.

A couple of minutes on YouTube or Twitter will prove that necessity.

-Jeff

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Thank you for mentioning SteemProjects :) I am glad that you found something interesting in it!

Do you maybe have any suggestions about which functionalities could be added/improved on SteemProjects?

Thanks for asking-none that I can think of at this time. You're doing a great job-is there anything we in the community can do to help?

I honestly thought this was gonna be a post about how Manny Pacquiao entered the world of cryptocurrency lmao(But really he did recently, with pac coins.) I honestly feel afraid for him though, he just might be scammed out of the millions he worked hard for.

That's very Filipino of you to think of him first! ;-)

Hey, you found it! I wrote about that many moons ago, but it had stopped working. Was it back up and running? I played for a long time, but it didn't seem to be much of a payout. Were you able to put in your username and get a reward?

Didn't get one yet.

If it is currently broken, that's fine. It's all beta still, and the concept itself is really cool.

Yeah, it was like .01 SBD when I was playing it. At some point, it broke. There had only been 10 SBD in the guy's wallet, so if someone was able to keep playing, they could have drained it already. It was just kinda fun to get that throwback gaming experience. :)

Wow it's been years from last time i played pacman

You'll pick it right back up.

Honing my craft and meeting new friends have been my favorite part of Steemit all along :) though the rewards are nice too!

Then you're in the right place!

This post made my day!!!
Been missing Pac Man for ages now!
Thanks for sharing this :)

Hi. I liked your post, keep it up. I wish you good luck and have a good day. :)