The STEEM "Shilling" Contest (Round 2) - 300 STEEM in prizes!!
A few weeks ago, I ran the first round of the Steem Shilling Contest. Users were tasked to "Shill Steem", and the winners who did the best job were awarded STEEM. The results of the contest can be seen here.
This is "round 2" of the contest, and there are even more prizes!! Thanks to @jerrybanfield for donating an additional 200 STEEM to the contest :)
Purpose
The purpose of this contest is to incentivise users to promote the Steem blockchain and STEEM currency to potential investors.
I want to emphasize that while recruiting more users/bloggers to the platform is really important too - that is not the purpose of this contest. This contest is focused on INVESTORS.
Why investors?
When a user earns STEEM from the platform, that STEEM has value. Users can buy things with it, hold on to it and hope it increases in value more, or trade it for US dollars (or other local currencies) using exchanges.
THE ONLY REASON that these tokens have any value, is because investors are willing to pay for them. If we didn't have investors willing to buy the tokens, they would not have any value.
The more value that investors see in the STEEM token, the higher the price can potentially go. The higher the price goes, the more rewards there are to pay out to users.
Bottom line: More investors buying STEEM = more money to pay out to users.
Contest Rules
- To enter the contest, you must "shill" (promote) the Steem blockchain and/or the STEEM currency to potential investors in some way.
- Whatever you do must take place after the creation time of this post. (You cannot submit stuff you have done in the past.)
- Whatever shilling you do must be honest/truthful.
- Your entry should consist of a reply to this post that describes what you did, include some sort of proof/results of what you did, and have an explanation of how it will attract investors to the platform.
- I will review all of the results and pick the "winners".
- The winners will be selected based on my subjective feedback of what I think is "best", although I will take upvotes and comments from other community members into consideration.
- Proposals can be made up to the time of the post closing.
- The winners will be declared and paid within 48 hours of this post closing.
Prizes:
- First place will get 75 STEEM.
- Second place will get 50 STEEM.
- Third place will get 25 STEEM.
- 15 honorable mentions will get 10 STEEM (each).
Here are some resources to use for your shilling:
- Steem Bluepaper: https://steem.io/steem-bluepaper.pdf.
- Daily transactions and blockchain utilization statistics: https://www.blocktivity.info/
- Steem has zero transaction fees.
- Steem transactions confirm in three seconds.
- Steem is an open source blockchain protocol that any developer can leverage to build social applications that reward users in cryptocurrency.
- Steem content is stored in the immutable ledger of the blockchain.
- Be creative, these are just suggestions.
Hi again. I have prepared an analysis of Steem as an investment opportunity. It includes massivley positive points regarding Steem blockchain including its top performance among all the blockchains, mass adoption, dApps successfully running on it, and the host of profitable ways of earning more Steem from the investment.
I have so far shared it in a crypto group of Suppoman which has 29k members and with a lot of money combined there. The title is such that this article will start appearing in Google search results soon and bring some serious eyeballs to Steem. I'll keep a tab on it. I've made a Medium draft and just need to be near a pc to publish it there. Reddit is another potential source of attention so I am figuring it out as well.
Best Cryptocurrency to Invest in? Analyzing Steem from an Investment Point of View and Sharing The Multiple Profitable Opportunities Presented by Steem Blockchain
Please, have a look from a contest point of view but also help it be visible on the trending page so that it gains more visibility within and outside Steemit. Thank you!
Great job! The more people you can share with, the better :)
@timcliff
I have to vouch a bit for @ilyastarar, "sales presentation", I really liked it, also the part about the high security of the steemit wallet, that is something I have been thinking about, but never seen much hype about...
I just read your article. Great piece of work buddy
https://steemit.com/cn/@maiyude/ezyqh-steem
https://bihu.com/article/77590
https://beta.ivery.link/IA/149861
我在steemit，币乎，ivery，宣传了steem货币的价值，吸引中国人来参与。
I wrote the article，Publicize steem value.Use Chinese，Attract Chinese investors.
with your rules in mind , i am trying to guest post an article about steem , it's advantages and from an investment point of view.I am now in the process of writing and by reading some comments i have understood that i need to convey steem as crypto and steemit as just a platform on top of it.
I am really hoping that my article gets accepted by http://cryptoknights.io/
I am attaching a respone to my proposal from the ck team
Also @timcliff guide me whether i am heading in the right direction.
Sounds good!
To be honest, your shilling contest rules are quite easy.
Finally I like to see a contest without massive restriction on how to participate.
...I enjoyed reading your post for the "gotcha" or fine-print issue.. But there was none..
You've proven that anyone can participate in this.. with ease actually.. I like it.
Is this still on?
The terms of the contest say that submissions can be made until the post closes.
Cool @timcliff , I am going to listen to some good music to get my freakin frequency up, and write something... =) Do I acctually have to "shill" like send the post to some CEO of an AI-company or a super rich Wall Street guy that I am friends with or something like this???
The goal of the contest is to attract investors.
One question before the "shilling" I heard a FUD about how STEEM or maybe it was SBD could just be created if needed, kind of like how the fed, creates more money? Is this true? Or is this FUD?
The witnesses have control over how much SBD is printed using their price feeds. If they report an accurate price, then the amount of SBD printed is fixed based on the defined inflation rate, and the marketcap of STEEM.
Technically the witnesses can provide intentionally high or low price feeds to cause the blockchain to produce more or less SBD, but this is not a common practice.
More information on this is available in the bluepaper and whitepaper.
Okay, thanks for clearing that up @timcliff. For STEEM, there is only a fixed amount. Right?
This is such an awesome idea Tim. I've been shilling Steem on a daily basis since discovering it and most people are begging me to shut up now ;)
Still working on my millionaire brother in Virginia... nearly there!
Resteemed for the extra coverage
Hehe, that's the problem we get when we shill it too much. People almost starts to believe that we have been brainwashed or something.
I'm crossing my fingers that you are able to get your brother to invest! I believe he will come to regret it if he decides to not listen to you.
My brother is in the stock market and still believes the crypto market is too volatile for him and his (media induced) brainwashing seems to prevent him from seeing the bigger picture...
Which is in part why I made this for him:
That's a great graph! It's very unfortunate that crypto and Bitcoin is getting so much bad publicity in the mainstream media, because even this "Bitcoin crash" that some people have called it is far from a crash if compared to just a year ago.
I think we all need this reminder sometimes;)
Participating in @timciff contest is always wonderful. Its always a great innovation towards steem. @timcliff keeps his promises attached to any of his contests. Another side of it is that when you participate, you directly gain training too. I wish i would be able to meet up with time to share in this development, not only for contest sake, rather for the progress of steem blockchain. @samstonehill, please still do well to convince your brother to invest.
Doing my best ;)
Well, if you're gonna shill, best shill Steem!
I can definitely vouch for this being a great contest to participate in. It's one where whatever you do benefits you and everyone else, regardless of whether you actually win. Of course, winning is nice too. 😀
I am going to be part of the contest but I had the idea in my head already.
This is once again a great contest, @timcliff! I believe it is a lot more difficult to get investors to join than bloggers and users of social medias, but it is probably even more important.
I don't really know anyone from the investment scene, so I will pass on joining the contest, but I will be reading the comments here, and join in on upvoting some good entries. It's not like my upvote is worth a lot, but I guess it is a nice bonus for those who enter ;)
Best regards from @valth
Hi @timcliff, I posted an entry in @apolymask's Information Finding Championship about how we could use Listserve to promote Steem, but I don't think it was targeting the investors in particular. But it gave me the idea to reboot something that I tried in my early days on Steemit, which was to create a StackExchange site for Steem. You can see the full post here:
https://steemit.com/makesteemitgreat-again/@plushzilla/want-a-better-q-and-a-for-steemit-the-steem-stackexchange-site-has-been-proposed-on-area-51-again
I don't think it is particularly original, but as far as credibility is concerned I think it would be a pretty good initiative if we can get it up and running. It wouldn't even be about trying to win the contest as much as trying to get people to join and so we can get some questions and answers from the community rather than relying on just the Steemit team (because Steem is now a lot bigger than Steemit.com).
Let me know what you think :)
A StackExchange site for Steem would be amazing! I would definitely spend my time answering questions about nature, animals and biology if you get it up and running. Best of luck!
Absolutely! We must never forget that Steemit is just one of very many apps, and there are more apps every day.
Hi @valth, the StackExchange site that I am proposing would only be for Steem related questions and answers, but I noticed that there wasn't anything in particular on nature or animals (there is one for biology: https://biology.stackexchange.com/). I saw your many animal posts so I am also going to follow you and add you to my Steemitopia Network of Learning if you like sharing and teaching people about these topics :)
Ah, alright. I was kind of imagining a big "clone" StackExchange based on the Steem blockchain that would have questions for all topics. But a type for only Steem related questions would of course also be a nice project, just a bit different than I imagined ;) I guess that's what I get for not investigating the post you linked to! Hehe
Oh, that's great! I have never heard of Steemitopia Network of Learning before, but I will check it out :)
Well, that would be a pretty cool idea and maybe something for the @utopian-io people to look into?
Here's the link to SNL if you are interested: https://steemit.com/makesteemitgreat-again/@fibrefox/the-steemtopia-network-of-learning-update-connecting-people-and-ideas
Seems like a cool idea. Might be hard to fit into the scope of the contest though.
Actually, this made me think of another good idea...
Judging by some of the questions that I see on Quora about Steemit, it seems like many people are looking to either invest or earn some money from the rumours that they hear about it:
So maybe the best thing to do would be to answer questions on Quora to dispel some myths and misconception about Steemit, especially questions like this:
As someone of reasonable reputation on the platform, it can help build confidence for people who are skeptical or unsure about the platform to provide personal experiences not just as someone who is a user, but someone who also has good reputation in other areas/topics on Quora.
I think if more people who are on Steemit can do this then it becomes another good source of information for potential investors and users to consider.
Sounds good. Will you be doing this?
I posted that answer yesterday and it had 17 views so far:
Hopefully that's 17 more people that don't think Steemit is a scam :) I will look for more questions to answer as I come across them.
Under a different topic (Steem as a cryptocurrency) there are also some very relevant questions that investors would look at:
Cool, keep up the good work! If you have any more conversations before the contest ends, be sure to post details here.
42 views and one upvote now...
The other answer also did okay
I also just saw this: https://steemit.com/funny/@jga/steemitnopoly-monopoly-for-steem
great i'll make amends to my slide for my upcoming event to shill steem blockchain with info from this post https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-blockchain-train-series-tickets-43164889346