In one word: Development

I was chatting with @thedegensloth today about his project @zappl

If you're not familiar with this project, @zappl is a platform being developed on the Steem blockchain that will act as a "Twitter for Steemit" -- in other words: micro-posting, retweeting, memes... that sort of stuff.

As we were chatting the realization came to me that the "Pandora's Box of Development" that has been opened because of Steemit will usher in the sort of blockchain development that many of us in the Bitcoin space have been waiting for for years.

With the stress that the major social media platforms have been putting on their users, which I talk about here and here -- you know what I mean: the censorship, the demonetization -- developers are rushing to come up with a killer app to accept this overflow of talent that is either leaving the restrictive platforms or thinking of leaving.

And when I started brainstorming how this feedback system would work between Steemit and the new systems that will be developed on top of it, my mind started to blow out my brain.

Consider: apps will be developed on top of Steemit which integrate with the Steem blockchain, these apps will reveal weaknesses and unknown bugs in Steemit which will then be corrected, which will cause the apps to addapt, and we will end up with one of the most quickly evolving technologies on the planet. The level of robustness that Steem will have is going to be incredible.

It will be like an epic Developer War, with each encampment fortifying their own base whilst strategizing how to innovate on top of the recent hardfork. And it will be we -- the consumers -- who will reap all the benefits.

These new apps will solve problems that Twitter and YouTube have never had to solve. The "big dogs" don't care what consumers want or need, and since they are centralized and privatized, they can do whatever they want if there is no other option.

Well guess what? Now there's an option, bitches!

I am so excited to be here on the ground floor as this technology advances and liberates us from the economic Hell of quantitative easing, debt, wage slavery, and centralized authorities controlling every God damned thing we say and do. We will see an entire information and content infrastructure that will PAY US FOR USING IT -- blogs, video sharing, browsing, hiring, developing...

Are you ready?!

Who's with me?!?!

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