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RE: How Steemit can save millions of lives?
It's not just about manipulation, I think in order for mass adoption to occur with such a platform it'd need to be easy to use. Currently it's a bit difficult to sign up and even though it's beta, I do believe it's not the platform for the typical person. People coming from Reddit, 4chan, forums, wordpress blogs? Sure. The average consumer from FB and Twitter? Ehhh. I do think there's a lot of potential, I mean there's going to be millions of users for sure.. but hundreds of millions might be a little over-reaching (unless things change, which they totally could).
Wonderful ideas! I agree I noticed as I refer more and more people from Facebook, They rapidly get confused and give up. When I first started here, it took months to get the hang of it. Even now I don't feel like I understand all of it. Some of it is a little confusing to me. Things need to be easier. People usually are hesitant on investing any sort of time, or money on something that may not pan out.
Right, I generally tend to steer away from the technical aspects of the site. Think about grannies on the street or some 13 year old trying to figure out delegation, voting for witnesses (and what that even would be), hardforks, etc. <<< That's pretty much simple stuff, but it takes some research to fully understand what it is. With people who can't even figure out Instagram, I'm saying Steemit is more for the tech savvy. And when you factor in payouts through cryptocurrency, it just makes everything a bit more trickier. People immediately scream SCAM! It is what it is, but I think there's a limit with Steemit's growth eventually (a few years down the line). It's unique, and it will have an amazing fanbase due to that.. but it'd need to introduce marketing and simplify a few things to get it to the masses.
Well, true, but then again, cryptocurrency is quite literally the future and for people like me who just don't get it, we have to put up or shut up. We have to put the time in or we're gonna fall behind. The same could be said for social media. The time of just liking and sharing is probably going through a very slow death.
Maybe 'some years' is putting it lightly though, you're right
The average person still has no idea what a Bitcoin is. I mean when I tell girls what I do.. they think it's related to like stealing or they're honestly confused what a "cryptocurrency" is. Nevermind the grannies on the street ;p
Bitcoin and especially mt.gox and silk road has put a bad name to it and its innovation.
I think without the darknet markets, the prices of cryptocurrencies wouldn't be where they are right now. For years Bitcoin was used while few knew about it. When Alphabay put up Monero and Zcash and similar onto its marketplaces, boom, the prices rose. Of course these aren't GIANT details, but it's enough to have a decent sized impact on the market. I agree wholeheartedly that BTC has a bad reputation on it though due to it, Mt. Gox, Cryptsy, etc. The only thing we can do? Keep going further and spreading the knowledge as much as we can. People will eventually become more open to it anyways
Well yeah. I'm basically one of those girls too. But We say this stuff about the phone and the internet when they're new too. This things tend to have an exponential curve about them. I guess we'll see!