HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEEM... What's your B'day Wish?

WOW!!! Three years already! That was fast wasn't it?

A lot can happen in 3 years. I am sure old timers have some funny stories to tell... I would like to chug a few brews and hear some of the major changes and accomplishments Steemians have experienced over the years.

Mostly what I hear from the old time Steemians is a wish for the old days before Resource Credits. When broadband was used, bloggers were burning the nodes off the Steem blockchain. I think some don't want to return to the old days because of the spam and plagiarism! The quality of the post content was pretty poor in the beginning.

Past Steem reward payouts were huge numbers... 4 and 5 digit Steem reward paypouts was not uncommon!

If you speak to the old timers, they want less bots and more engagement. Those days may never fully return.

After one week on my new Steem account, there has been little engagement, but I ain't complaining. After 1,233 upvotes received and 355 votes delivered - rewards are being claimed daily now. I am like WOW! This is more than what I expected so soon into my journey - but great!

There are Steemians doing far greater than me. I am happy to have some numbers to goal set from. Which is why I like Steemitboard awards - it reminds me to keep working towards the next goal.

If I had a simple birthday wish for STEEM it would be a more simplified way to monetize social media actions with more incentives for other actions like reply comments (with more than 150 characters)... RESTEEM functions that share to accounts FOLLOWING as well as account FOLLOWERS.

I wish for more FREE promotional services which improve the Reputation Score and payout more Steem Power. I also wish the cryptocurrency markets were much kinder to Steem, but that should be corrected because more exchanges are trading it. I think the separation of Steem price paid in rewards should be separate from the market exchange value of STEEM traded on external markets.

I think this will happen very soon due mostly to the work of Steem Engine! We can create our own tokens... That will enable an internal crypto-token exchange that will further token trading and hopefully e-commerce!

YES!!! I wish for a Walmart or Amazon like retailer that accepts Steem for the purchase of goods and services.

I wish ALL Steemians a prosperous and happy pursuit of "URR" Dreams!