| I'm going to be calling out a few of my real life friends with some very basic questions topped with some facts about Steemit and blockchain technology. Thanks to IFTTT, it's going out to my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn feeds and I'm going to tag my real life friends with a follow up. |
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If you answered yes to any or all of these, guess what? You are a perfect match for Steemit.
In its current form, Steemit is a blogging platform built on blockchain technology where our coined phrase is: "Come for the rewards. Stay for the community." But we are not JUST a blogging platform. We've got dozens of independent projects in development by enterprising groups and individuals.
| Let me give a cake analogy. If the blockchain is the spongy part of a cake Okay. It's kind of a plain cake but it's still a cake. So we add some decorations to this cake: |
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Translated: We have a monetized blogging platform, apps, marketplaces, creative arts studios, digitized galleries, etc.
Now, most of us don't care or really think about the spongy part of the cake.
We want the whole shebang!
But a cake isn't a cake without the spongy center, is it?
We need the blockchain and the witness nodes, otherwise we've got sweet ideas
I joined Steemit in July, 2016 because I was looking for a place to hang out and possibly earn some money for my content. I've written for HubPages, have maintained my own blogs for several years, and really made no significant money. I've never had a trending article with millions of views to command a large payout.
Then there were other pay-for-content sites.
Well... I made sure I saved all of my Bubblews articles about a month before they shut down because they never had a plan for sustainability. I wrote two posts for Tsu before I absolutely knew they were doomed from the beginning. Frankly, I'm surprised that SkyPip and PersonaPaper are still around.
These four mentioned sites have several things in common:
Where are the whitepapers? Where is the roadmap for growth? Where is the transparency?
Do you think Mark Zuckerberg values your time and creativity?
Is he sharing the revenue generated by your time, attention and creativity WITH YOU?
“The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.” Don & Alex Tapscott, authors of Blockchain Revolution
What's that again?
What's that good for?
So I had a quick chat with witness 
"The blockchain is kind of like the cloud. It is a bunch of computers out there, and everyone's "stuff" (content, comments, votes, etc.) is all stored in the cloud. The witnesses (nodes) are the ones hosting the computers which make up the cloud. And the reason it is called a blockchain is because all of the computers that make up the cloud need a way to communicate with each other and keep each other up to date, so the system packages everything that happens in a 3-second period into what is called a 'block' - where a witness produces a block, and then that block (with everything that happened in that short time frame) gets sent to all the other computers in the network/cloud."
I don't need to know how to build an engine to drive a car.
I don't need to know how electricity powers my coffee maker to brew a pot.
Guess what? You don't need to know how blockchain technology works to open up an account and start a digital wallet.
Steemit is not perfect.
In fact, we've just celebrated our first year and we've probably got a few more years to go before we breach beta. But I'm telling you as a friend, a blogger, a creative person, an entrepreneur, and a freshly minted cryptocurrency noob fanatic - you may never find an easier gateway into the future of things than Steemit.
To my Steemit friends: You are welcome to take any or all segments of this post to recruit your friends if you find it helpful, with the exception of my SteemVerify badge unless you are sharing this post as a whole. Thank you.
