Steem is several years old now, it's a blockchain based social networking eco-system that pays you to post and comment - plus has a plethora of aother benefits. Despite it's greatness, it has also had it's fair share of problems, but a recent update to the network appears to have made a big shift towards balance, fairness and could be just what the world has needed to be added to Steem. The Steem community now has a way to combat vote selling via free downvotes and also pays much more rewards to curators, meaning that the best posts (subjectively) now stand a much better chance of gaining exposure organically due to manual, community driven upvoting.
In this video I take you on a quick journey through some of the changes and my thoughts on the present state of Steem. If you've never used Steem you can get a great intro here and if you used Steem in the past then maybe these changes will motivate you to drop by and have another play. :)
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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https://dsound.audio
https://www.ureka.org
https://steem.ninja
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I actually watched this video earlier whilst I was having dinner earlier so I guess you can count yourself fortunate that we were on a date, talking about steem 🤣
Anyway, love the enthusiasm and the way you explain everything. You do have a great narrators voice, very calming. Hard to imagine a dnb rave nutta in there haha!
In fact, watching your video and reading a few other positive articles about steem since the changes prompted me to load up another 3k steem and push myself over the 10k SP range. Going to enjoy the curation train for a bit 🙂
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haha.. i feel like i missed a dessert somewhere along the line ;)
thanks for the kind words - well, dnb kind of helped me to break myself and also fix myself and part of all of that involved clearing up my mind that helps me to communicate more clearly.. the challenge now is to do that in music too. :)
i'm glad to hear you are confident in the future here.. i look forward to the growth I was expecting 2 years ago ;)
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Haha, don't worry, you're sweet enough already #nohomo
I know how you feel with DnB, it had and has the same effect on me too! The challenge I have now is to get everything sounding as clean as the pros in Hospital and Liquicitiy...
I'm pretty confident after seeing the changes following HF21 to the community behaviour and the main development team in steemit are communicating regularly which makes a huge difference in confidence. For me personally anyway. I've been on a few crypto music sites and they fade away, turn in to hobbies or just don't stick to what they said they would do and never communicate.
I've not seen the prices this low since I've been on and thought, now was the time to buy in at around 13p per STEEM. It could go lower still but I'm just loading up when I get some spare cash from the new job (once I've factored in other expenses of course haha). Here's to bright future!
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lol :)
I have been subscribed to liquicity in youtube but never seen them come up in my sub list.. I just hit the notification bell because I have hardly ever heard them at all. Just listening to some bits now - yeah, very nice - thanks for the tip. Actually, I prefer what I'm hearing there to Hospital's vibe at the moment.
There was a busker in Norwich today singing old style reggae - like 'police and thieves' really well, I thought about trying to get him to record some vocals, but I don't have time at the moment. Once I get a couple of current projects finished I'm going full on with the tracks I've started .. then I'll look at some new ones more on the liquid vibe and maybe that reggae remix.
Yes, the communication is important and when it's missing it leaves the imagination open to think that there's nothing going on. I can feel that Steem is going to stay the course because it's elements are solid - it's general enough to be used in a large number of ways and so that means there are many people interested in helping grow it for many different reasons.
I'm glad you got in low, yeah - definitely a good time to buy. Hard to say what's going to happen, but there's a good chance we'll see Steem at $1 again soon.
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Yea I agree with you on Liquicity side of things, actually think they have gone down the line that Hospital used to be before going in to a very "speed pop" sound rather than liquid dnb. A liquicity night out in London 2 years ago was the last big DnB thing I did and would like to do more in 2020 for sure as it's looking like a bit of a "free" year. If steem's price moves upwards in that time then could well use some of the earnings to pay for a night out, who knows :)
I'm doing a bit of "life reorganisation" as well and that includes cutting down a bit on posting. Trying to do a daily upload is pretty intense and now I've bought up on STEEM, the curation rewards I'll be getting will mitigate the "lost steem" from author rewards now. I'll probably do one post on music and one on travel each week to try and get better quality going but it's more the time I'll have back which will help in many ways!
I agree with the assessment on STEEM too - it's also helped by the fact it's open source so anyone can build any dapp they want to integrate to the chain which makes it multi purpose really. But the only place I see so far that's trying to tackle onboarding and making it all simple to use is travelfeed. Steempress seems to be doing a good job too so we'll see how those developments go as well.
$1 STEEM would be very tasty! Don't think I've seen it get to that in the 18 months I've been here haha
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I don't believe in this #newsteem people are trying to market. Some of the same protocols were already in play before. It's the same STEEM, just a different rule set and more weekend warriors ready to flag you in ignorance.
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I understand things to be new in terms of the user experience without so many bots - though 'new' isn't really the best word for it, granted. I haven't had any meaningful downvote issues yet, who has been downvoting you?
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I'm not sure if the economy is completely fixed, but it is obvious that behavior changed for the better and most people realized that we were the actual reason why the economy was broken for a long time now. I'm feeling super bullish at the moment. Each day we are a step closer to the internet utopia.
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@ura-soul, Yes, now this Ecosystem gone through from the Transformation and current phase is more balanced and good things are falling at right places.
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I think so that with the #Newsteem and #HF21, the problem is gradually solving and sooner we steemians will laugh the best! Thanks for having you in 3Speak with this great video!
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