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RE: The Old Dog Discovers: John McAfee Trades in Steem!
Having big accounts and celebrities on Steemit might help with credibility on some level, as long as those "names" still loosely fit within the idea that this is an alternative to other social media.
On the other hand, just how "decentralized" and community driven is it if we end up with a handful of famous names earning 90% of the rewards for no reason other than "they are famous" while the people who have worked for months and even years publishing quality content end up with 1/4 of what they get now?
Seems to me that "big names" may just be a way to import the very problems and inequities Steemit was-- in a way-- created to escape from...
We actually don't need celebrities here in my opinion. I don't want to find the photo of Kardashian's ass with $1000 reward. Small, ordinary people will raise the steem, if you ask me.
Agreed!
Kardashian no but do you think that having someone like McAfee promote us would be good? If you look at famous crypto players like Max Keiser and Jeff Burwick, after huge initial payouts they are now more or less earning like normal bloggers.
That's why they will leave the steemit soon. But, we'll see. The only obstacle I see is the problem with on boarding new people on the platform. We don't need promotion or advertising here. Just bring on a million new users and steem will go to $10. Chess mate.
$10 Steem. That sounds good to me!
Stars may make more per post than the average joe but they BRING IN a lot of new users and investors of which INCREASES the value of $teem. Then we all win anyways!
Yes bring in the stars and check the ego!
SteemON!
Hahah you make a very good point actually !
You raise some great points. If you look at the famous member that i mentioned in this post, after an initial surge with huge earnings they have, for the most part made a moderate sum on their more recent posts. Time will tell what happens but I do share your concerns.