I have been following everyone who made an insightful comment on my own posts, or in response to my comments on other posts, or to anyone especially that I have found in the 'new' section. I want to make connections and the connections are growing and I still am following more people than are following me, but this won't happen overnight.

WE are the product that Steem is selling. Our work, our stories, our photos and videos, our opinions, this is the product. This is unlike any other blockchain based system online at the moment. Having a product, and the curation system helps promote the best stuff higher to be more visible, is the missing ingredient in all efforts up to now. There is outside investors who are just putting in money into the system, and there is us, the creators, making something that others want to buy into, and we are all doing our darnedest to find the little nuggets that are hiding somewhere in the future.

It will be some time yet before the community and the investment in this will start to become more substantial, but already Steem is in the top 6 cryptocurrencies for capitalisation, and even we may well soon not just pip litecoin but also ripple from their positions.

This is groundbreaking stuff. Everything else in the crypto scene hasn't yet got a product, only a speculative instrument. There is many efforts to make actual products, there is stock market exchanges even now, and some of the newer systems like Dash and Ethereum are applying the understanding that redistribution of the inflationary element of newly minted coins rightly should be split between miner rewards, funding development, and creating the ability for us to invest in it. Steem goes one step further and adds a product, our work.