Very similar to my experience in the past couple of weeks. It's much easier to explain how Steem works then say Bitcoin. Also, since whatever is happening on Steem can easily be shown using Steemit, dtube etc, listeners find it much more interesting. I have just got someone registered into Steem and hope to slowly get more people into it :)
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