Hello I am @bartolo, a newcomer to Steemit.
I have to give thanks to a friend of mine, @refrito , who has introduced me to this technology on which I really see a lot of potential.
He is showing me all the potential of this project and he is spending a lot of time on educating me so I am very grateful with @refrito.
According to my colleague, the development team has done a great job lately in order to alleviate blockchain-birth problems and now we can say that #newsteem is much better than a couple of years ago also with a good growing perspective
My friend also explained to me about the benefits of doing Power Up and using Voting Power to get good income as a curator...
I am not a Blogger, nor I am skilled at anything that people can like but I like to read and to watch online content so I can be active here as well...
Honestly, I needed to place a significant amount of money and I thought this crypto could have a great ROI if I work a as a curator, while enjoying the great quality of the published articles.
Since I have money left over and since the price of Steem seems very appealing today, I just bought 2,000,000 of Steem from someone who calls himself @net or @nex or... whatever the name, I don't care, my friend was the guy who did the business with this guy.
Btw, he offered to me an extra additional discount of 20% on the price of the market so I did not think twice and bought everything in one shot...
Now I am just waiting for my friend to come back in order for him too explain me about how the Powering Up process works and start curating here.
In the meantime I am relaxed while discovering content at "STEEMIT".
I mean, I'm here, I'm looking over here and there... I've already plunged into the Trending page, but, maybe I'm wrong, it seems that nothing new appears there for 14 hours...
Where is the quality content I should be interested on to curate?
Let's see If I can find something about by googling... nothing there.
Bufff, I don't like this...
Wait, Ok, my friend says that I can delegate my SP to some curation initiative that will do the work for me in exchange for some of my earnings... not bad ...
While writing this I found this chart on a site called STATEOFTHEDAPPS:
Seems that the activity on this STEEMIT thing is going downwards in a constant trend since more than 30 days already ?
But how is it possible?
Why more content creators don't come here to earn?
But, my friend told me it has such a potential! what the F*ck is happening here?
What the hell should I curate if the content creation is continuously decreasing?
You know what... I am going to put my money in BITCOIN for the moment... I am going to sell what I bought and get the money back with this additional 20%
Sorry guys, I like the project but I cannot put the money here right now but I swear I will do as soon as the activity here resumes... it has potential, for sure, wait for me...
This is a fiction story, any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence...or not :-)
Written only for fun, trying to insert myself in the head of an hypothetical STEEM new investor who tries to understand what is going on here and why we keep going downwards with such an amazing blockchain project.
Indeed a great story. Well done. Since you mentioned powering up I will say that if there was a time frame of one to two weeks MAXIMUM for powering down Steem I would have powered up all my earned Steem and I would have even bought some with my own money. I don't like though having "my money" locked at the mercy of a website. I have had liquid Steem on exchanges, up to 4000, not much but not once have I thought of powering up. I simply don't consider fair this period of time for powering down. I also believe that if it was shorter much more investors would buy and power up to earn by curating. It's sad to see Steem falling this way and sometimes I don't even feel like searching for it on coinmarketcap.com. I was very excited about it though in 2018 when I joined. I belive that @ned fucked up things hard in here when he powered down and sent his liquid Steem to exchanges. Yes it's his Steem but very bad timing to do that and a very bad bad decision. With all of that I still see this platform worthy of my posts and time spent reading others as well.
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Hehehe! Well, the main point in this story is that we have very little information for new investors...everything seem to depend only in our own efforts for Steem promotion.
I’m powering up all my earnings lately as well as buying some from time to time.
The point is , is the Steem blockchain prepared for an hypothetical entry of new investors? Do we have enough visibility in the things we can do here?
I’m not sure about and this is a discouraging uncertainty.
TRON with less applicability and less power does better in marketing than us despite it’s not better than Steem in any of its main aptitudes.
An Investor will look first on the price, then on the position at the market, then on the activity and the ability to generate revenue vs time and lastly in the technology.
That’s of course only my opinion.
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Hard to argue with much of this. It's frustrating to see how things are panning out right now.
I just keep thinking of the brave folk who were busy buying when the price was at similar levels before the 2017 market bull run - we saw where it got to ($8!) plus there was a heck of a lot less development back then!
Not sure we'll see quite those heady heights again but I'm not going to leave (yet) and I'm buying small chunks here and there.
It's still the blockchain that occupies the most time on my screen and that says something in itself.
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It is also my thoughts as well.
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At least in my case, every time I say cryptocurrency people run away in terror.
People still need some more time to understand it and, in the while, we can profit to fatten the pig. ;-)
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Of course, as far as the pig still has enough food to eat. If the food is gone also the pig will.
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This seems too close to the truth ;-)
It's a good concept, delivered poorly.
It started as a blockchain project, and as such appealed to blockchain enthusiasts.
But they are few and far between.
Your average content creator doesn't give a rat's bum about blockchain, they just want a good platform, good engagement and to be treated well.
The reason Steemit is going nowhere is because the is no real leadership, no real direction, no driving force. It is being left to grow, or die, organically.
Unfortunately that has allowed the weeds to grow and smother pretty much everything.
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Lack of Leadership, indeed
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That would be a smart move that fictional character would perform.
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Fictional and actual I would say
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@bartolo is smart LOL
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😁
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