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RE: Steemit’s First Twitter Ad Campaign!
Roughly $75 million worth of steem has been sold by you guys over the past few years, you need to spend some of that on real advertising, and you need to do it ASAP.
If you do not, steemit.com will be dead within a year or two as a couple major competitors are set to launch in the coming months and they will be spending millions on advertising...
The clock is ticking for steemit.com.
I would like to use this opportunity to drive home one important thing.
There is no competition between blockchain projects and there will not be for a very, very long time. Why? Because the entire market cap of the sector is so small and because of the severe immaturity of the space. No project has even remotely begun to tap into its potential user base.
You want to know who the real winners of this space will be? Those projects that implement interoperability between different projects. We're at a stage where almost every project is an island unto itself and almost completely lacking any kind of real network effect or practical use.
The entire idea of blockchain-based content delivery, including social media is completely novel to 99% of social media users out there. Steem stands to benefit enormously if any other project introduces the concept to the masses and manages to convince them to adopt it.
I agree with you that Steemit Inc has done a lot less than they should.
At this stage, I'm expecting Steemit Inc to do exactly one thing: to finish their work with MIRA. Others have already proven themselves to be fully capable of taking it from there.
I agree with some of this, but not the part about steem benefiting if another social project brings the masses in. Steem isn't steemit.com but for all intents and purposes, it really is. If steemit.com dies, which it likely will when a better run project with hundreds of millions in backing comes along ( which one is btw in less then 2 months). I don't see how that will possibly be good for steemit, and in turn, steem.
It will steal whatever user base is left here, thus causing those here to sell and get what they can, while they can. Which will put things into a downward spiral that will not be easy to come back from.
Eventually the price will bottom out and something of value could feasibly be built on steem, but it will only get harder and harder with a much lower price of steem and much lower market cap and lack of visibility and resources.
I mean we have had trouble funding a decent project on here with steem prices over a dollar for a long period of time, what chance is there with prices sub penny?
And don't forget about the witness pay coming in steem... but their costs fixed in dollars... a very low price of steem will cause issues there as well.
So, you see, the clock really is ticking on steemit.com and in effect, steem.
I'm sure some people would sell. But let's imagine some other blockchain-based social media platform managed to tap into a torrent of new users. That would not be possible at all without convincing the general public of the benefits of decentralization. The beginning of mainstreaming would mean that there would have to be millions or tens of millions people enthusiastic about decentralization. That would mean the idea of decentralized content delivery including social media would have to be extensively covered by mainstream media outlets. Lots of articles comparing various decentralized articles would be written. Steem as a platform and Steem apps would be covered, too.
Let's assume a decentralized social media platform gained ten million active new users. If Steem were to gain only 1% of that, that would mean 100,000 new active users. We have maybe around 15,000 active users at the moment. Even a small piece of the pie would result in massive growth. Even if a half of us packed up and left, the number of the people leaving would be dwarfed by the newcomers. Another decentralized social media platform going mainstream would create so much positive news coverage in the crypto space that it would most likely result in a massive influx of speculative money. Cryptocurrencies tend to be highly correlated assets. The success of some will lift all the boats in the big picture.
This is why it is very important for projects on Steem not to rely on the price of the coin to fund anything. Digital collectibles is one area where the chances of relying on direct fiat funding are good.
But I do agree on the point you made about witnesses relying on STEEM price. That's why it's vital that MIRA gets rolled out in the near future. It will be much harder to withstand much lower STEEM prices or to scale without bringing the cost of running a full node down.
It's already too late...
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Who are those competitors?
I guess its EOS blockchain trying to make their own social media like steemit, just heard it from some youtubers.
if it is EOS, this means Dan Larimer is screwing us together with his markymark companions
A lot of things going on on blockchains. And there are other new ones soaring high.
Steem blockchain is quite slow, it started April 2016 but still struggling at Rank 59 on CoinMarketCap.
EOS started July 2017 and now it ranks #6, it even reach Rank 4 for the past weeks I guess.
I don't know why steem blockchain is very slow to develop.
First look at the top witnesses here:
https://steemd.com/witnesses
and then watch this video, don't forget the last 5 minutes
Oh he's now on rank 2!
I didn't actually watch the full video and I don't know the whole story.
But I guess life will go on no matter what difficulties will come along the way.
I wish you all the best man!
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Steemit first has to get rid of all the actors inside in the top center who are sabotaging Steemit from within, it's the Steemit witnesses themselves that are destroying the Steemit blockchain:
Fully agree, the only thing I hope is that whether not be too late for Steem
Um no steemit inc has NOt sold 75 Million dollars worth of steem....
Blockchain forensics. Transfers to exchanges from the known steemit,inc accounts and the price of steem on those days. It's not an exact science of course hence the word "roughly", but it is a rough estimate of what they transferred and the prices on those days. Do the math. It's likely not exact, but in the proverbial ballpark.