When I joined Steem, about three months ago it was just coming out of the pot era. Some of you guys will remember that every post to do with pot pretty much anyway got upvoted nicely. Since then I have learned a pretty fair amount about the steem technology. I am about 3/4 of the way through reading the steem white paper and I have been running a mining node for steem for around 1 1/2 months.
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In that time I have had some successful posts and I have gathered some followers as well, all of who I follow back and enjoy the content of.
Something I just came to realise tonight while thinking about it is steem itself and the community (those two things may be the same thing) is actually in metamorphosis right now. The reason for this is the growth we have seen as well as a number of other things but the growth is what I am focusing on.
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I would like to think of steem being in its caterpillar stage right now but that caterpillar is weaving its cocoon and that is an exhausting process that is the reason for the seeming discord in the community as well as in the price. Fortunately for us we all know what comes after the cocoon. However I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that just because we are in troubled times doesn't mean we need to get at each others throats. We are all here to some level because we believe in the possibility of change that we can have a brighter future then it looks like we do right now.
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That is all I have for the time being thank you for reading.
This post was vaguely inspired by reading 
