Wait, Pac Man? Yes, Pac Man.
While browsing through the wonderful Steem Projects website, I came across this little gem: a Pac-Man emulator that pays you in steem if you get a high score. It's a fun use of Steem and yet another reminder that this Steem blockchain is so much more than steemit.com.
A lot of people seem to be getting frustrated with the bid bot system, and I don't blame them. The idea of posting great content and having it get curated to the top, only to see people paying hundreds of dollars worth of SBD to get something into trending, is frustrating. It might not be the future we imagined when we first heard about steem.
And yet, 40 years ago, you put your hard earned quarter into an arcade game to play some Pac-Man. Today, you can play it and get paid!
There are a couple hundred projects you can look at on the Steem Projects website. Poke around a bit.
Steem is an amazing blockchain project that is massively undervalued. I'm not going to "call" a huge price increase or anything here-I have no idea what the future price action of steem is: nobody does. But the fact is, we have an operating blockchain that is unique in its "Proof of Brain" inflation system. This blockchain is being experimented upon by a lot of developers, and anyone can get involved.
Finally, if steem does take off and become the successful platform we expect with tens of millions of users, there will be vastly more competition for the rewards pool. We may one day look back at getting 1 steem or 1 SBD for a post and think of that the same way I think of being able to mine Ether a couple years ago-a block every couple days.
Now is the time to buckle down, hone your craft, keep posting the good stuff, meet new friends, and try to avoid collateral damage while a few whales duke it out. Our job is not to worry about them, but to keep showing the internet how incentivizing interactions on social media can create non toxic comment boxes.
A couple of minutes on YouTube or Twitter will prove that necessity.
-Jeff
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