Leave STEEM At Your Own Risk!!!!

STEEM is the blockchain of opportunity.

This is something that is becoming more apparent to me everyday. I can only imagine what this place will be like if @ned's goal of 100K entrepreneurs on this blockchain is even close to being reached. It is so exciting to watch what is happening with only 350-400 DApps. Consider a day when there are thousands of developers on the STEEM blockchain all producing applications that attract users.

Many point to the fact that STEEM's retention rate is poor. To start, does anyone know that for sure? What is an acceptable retention rate on a blockchain? And secondly, who cares at this point?

My view is simple: leave STEEM at your own risk!!!

It is obvious that many come on here and do not see the potential. That really sucks for them. I know I am not alone in trying to convey what is taking place here. Nevertheless, you can't force feed someone. They are free to leave.

And yes, I am well-aware of the fact that many come here with unrealistic expectations. A great deal of that lies with some of the individuals on Facebook and YouTube espousing the absurd notion that just come here and make a fortune in two posts.

The bottom line is that we are not well served by having a bunch of people on here who are looking at this as a get rich-quick scheme. In fact, the faster they leave, the better it is for all of us.

STEEM is a long-term venture. Those who take this view are going to be highly successful. There are already many different ways to earn STEEM and that will only grow. Each of us are free to develop whatever ideas we have for a STEEM-based business.

Short of ideas?

That is okay, I came across a post yesterday that even offered one up.

How about Curation-As-A-Service?

With the advanced version of Curator and Smart Media Tokens(SMT), anyone can setup a curation service powered by their own SMT.

In the coming updates of Curator, the bot system will be able to vote:

• content from the projects' blog
• vote content from the team's members' blog accounts

This model will mean that the Curator model could become a self-sustaining business model which financially rewards not only authors but also the team and also finances the project itself.

https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@dzivenu/introducing-curator-advanced-standalone-curation-interface-and-the-age-of-curation-as-a-service

Now isn't that amazing?

Here is a developer who put together an application that is fully open-source for anyone to use. That is the Age of Abundance mindset. Yes, according to the article it is best to have a developer on the team since there is some set up involved. However, here is a project that is being handed to the community for anyone to use and profit from.

In other words, it is an opportunity that anyone can take advantage of.

Another thing happened on my way around STEEM.

I came across a post by @steemitblog. At first they wouldn't post anything, now you can't shut them up. They posted like three times in a week.

Their post was basically an open letter in response to a complaint that was put out by the Status team about censorship on Medium. Evidently, the anti-crypto stance is not limited to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Now Medium is getting in on the act.

I will not repost what the Status people wrote, that is in the link I provided. The main point is that the Steemit Team openly reached out to them plus is promoting the idea of decentralization. It was synchronistic timing since it went up about the same time as my article did espousing the idea that we need to keep driving home the idea of decentralization.

https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/censorship-why-all-blockchain-projects-should-join-steem-especially-status

If we really want to get loopy, we might even stretch this as far as to say this is a marketing piece. 😀

STEEM is not perfect. We all know that. There are many things that need attention. Of course, if you are looking for perfection, perhaps blockchain is not the right area. Look at EOS; that was the game-changer. Three weeks after launch, nothing but problems. That blockchain is getting hammered on the different crypto sites. Does that mean it is trash like some are saying? Of course not. What it means is there are issues that need attention. That is not the ideal blockchain, at this point, either.

I know, the whales have too much power. Again, look at EOS. That was suppose to alleviate that issue with an ICO that lasted the better part of a year. What was the result? From what I read, 50% of the tokens are in the hands of 10 accounts. STEEM's distribution is far from ideal but it is getting better.

This is not a knock on EOS by the way. I just use it to exemplify how there are problems with every blockchain if we choose to focus upon them. Being prudent is a good approach. If one decides STEEM is not the place to be, good luck in whatever is pursued. This is not for everyone I am sure.

The one thing I will say about that concept is to be careful. Leaving the STEEM blockchain can be a very expensive decision. We all know what it is like to have the opportunity to get into something at X price only to look back years later and see what it cost us. I can make a case that STEEM will be this way for a lot of people.

STEEM is really helping me see the Age of Abundance starting to unfold. There are so many opportunities on here already. The people who are truly concerned about others and helping all break free from the system we all are operating under is amazing. I feel that we could start to see something that is truly revolutionary with this blockchain.

To paraphrase President Bush the first: Its the development silly.

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