Do you even Crypto Bro...?

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## Steem/Hive Battle is about Personalities, Ideologies and our own internal affairs.

Digital currencies are the future and it helps if they are also decentralized, transparent and immutable - various projects will have different strengths and weaknesses.  None are perfect.

## Ideology

I really don't care much for Bible Thumpers, Bitcoin Maximalists or extreme idealists in any sector.  I'm much more impacted by common sense, tolerance and working towards goals.  So the fact that Steem was already centralized was a concern, but not a deal breaker.  The reward pool was a distribution tool not set in stone for any one use.  The stakeholders and invested people would have this resource to allocate to people, things, projects, content, whatever would create a broader distribution and healthy economy.

## My Story

The vision for Steem for me was always about connecting mainstream users with crypto and allowing them to get hands on experience, which would fuel adoption.  

For several years I had heard of Bitcoin before joining Steem, I knew I was interested, that it sounded like a cool project.  It was on my "someday I should check that out list".

When I heard @jamescorbett talk about Steem "a currency that works kind of like Bitcoin, but attached to a social media platform that respects privacy" I knew I had to check it out.

Three months later I had used Localbitcoin, Bittrex, Poloniex and Coinbase to purchase and trade various cryptos, including Steem and Bitcoin.  I was able to accomplish that because of the platform and the community.  I had people to advise, assist and educate me on this path.  I documented much of that in my early Steem Posts.

As I explored the market space I looked at other projects, they were all trying to find ways to make their products more user friendly for mainstream end-users.  Dash was working on "User Friendly Names" for their wallets, and faster transactions. I realized we already had those things.

As I explored other projects I realized I had accidentally discovered a project that was/is and amazing undiscovered goldmine in the future of cryptocurrency meets mass adoption.  The early days of Steem had us onboarding people who were crypto curious or just interested in the blogging platform and before you knew it many of us held other tokens and had accidentally become crypto literate, by using Steem and being exposed to it, while doing things we already knew how to do.

Despite sign up issues, whale wars, drama and other factors for a long period of time we saw growth and we were quickly accomplishing what others had not..  Onboarding mainstream users, rewarding them for doing tasks they already knew how to do and helping them learn to buy, sell and trade crypto.

## Absolutely Beautiful!!!

We then hit a grueling bear market, personalities and conflicts in the vision.
Now we are here...

## What Now?

The people need a currency that is not being hijacked by Global Leaders, they need a place to share their Quarantine Stories and they need a project they can work on at home.  They need to connect and share information that is being overshadowed by a hysterical and centralize mainstream media.  

## Opportunity:

Are we going to waste this opportunity fighting over ideals?  

Steem and also Hive have the ability to be a place where people learn about crypto, share ideas, stories, blogs while learning about crypto.

It has the ability to cut out centralized control systems in News via citizen journalists.

It has the ability to create a brand new model in Music/Game distribution.

It has the ability to publish and track education projects in a time where people will be home schooling and seeking new tools.

It has the ability to be an independent social economic society, for earning, living and creating without regard for viruses and quarantines.

If Bitcoin is the exchange of value without third party intervention, we have the ability to exchange, music, information, education and social experiences without third party intervention.

 Why are we always focused on our own internal affairs to the point of blocking out other opportunities.

3,8 billion people currently use some form of social media, and we are worried about perfectly meeting some crypto criteria?

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