decentralised steemit consulting on the bus again this morning, how the last year has changed me.

On the way into town this morning I got chatting with this guy, he always seems to get on at the same time and spot we do. He’s a student and he tends to go into town in the same amount of two hour chunks of time as we do (because only four buses a day for this route) so the chances of bumping into him again in the same day feels very matrix cat like.

Every time I bump into him (and I’m sure he will read this post once he signs up to it) we get into crypto, be it bitcoin price or steemit we talk about the broader spectrum of what it actually means for the future. He comes across smart to me that he’s looking for peers and mapping out what he’s gonna do with his life.

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When I’m talking about steemit to other people I’m always kinda smug inside of how much I’ve actually applied myself and learned in the last year about crypto in general. Smug because I could have quite easily not followed it through and really dug deep into understanding the components to get me by, talking to others about it really hones what I need to put together to explain it to other people.

It’s way more than a public ledger this blockchain lark, it’s a cultural, behavioural, moral maybe, even required and necessary component to a global hive mind of connected people who need to be active citizens of planet earth, it’s way more than just steem, sbd and bitcoin — it’s our expression of time interest for the world to see.

It’s a geo time centric expression of humanity, I am here, I am activated and I am ready to engage and connect way passed the old ‘community’ groups and local town halls, this is where led lights flash on and off twenty four hours a day, computers are waiting for nobody and we need to be conductors and ambassadors of our own data journeys through the grid.

the more accessible I’ve made myself and removed the need to roll out my own life narrative, the more I’ve allowed the decentralised nature of the world unravel, the more I’ve got involved, turned up, expressed, got creative the more the world seems to peel back another protocol layer of access for me to be surprised by.

I want to thank @lloyddavis for introducing me to steemit as an explorative, safe zone for me to blog into. To learn about crypto in my own time, in my own way, to try the apps, to experiment with and day by day cultivate my own ledger expression here — it just keeps getting better.

Talking with this student guy who was meeting his friends for a healthy breakfast no doubt it made me realise that the ones that understand this stuff and need to become peers need to do so with an open mind, humility and be agile with form and function to shape the way forward for everyone, on every level, no matter who they are and where they are from.

I look forward to our next steemit on the public transit session soon ;)

p.s -- i don't even know his name and in this decentralized world, that's ok. i'll find him. . . ;)

pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado ripped up the town (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros → crowdfunded digital signage concept called pi street → now living life through digital blockchains.