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RE: Idea: How to Encourage Good Curators and Help Promote More Good Content on Steemit

in #steemit • 9 years ago

Don't forget that there are many regular people here that are not even familiar with crypto currencies.
Not everyone has the money to actually invest them in Steem Power, there are however a lot of people that invest a lot of their time and a lot of efforts though...

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     9 years ago 

    Making a 20 USD purchase of Steem is not impossible for most people, people spend that kind of money on drinks in one evening out. The drinks are gone forever after consumption, but Steem power remains.
    However you are right that acquiring Steem is not that easy for those who aren't into cryptocurrencies already.

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    If you could just say here are my 20 bucks give me steem power and you got powered up it would have been really easy for a lot of people. The problem is that you need to first buy some crypto currency with these 20 dollars such as BTC, then trade that for STEEM, then move it to Steemit... this is not an easy thing to do for people that are not into crypto currencies and that may have not even heard about Bitcoin. For a lot of people this could be just as hard as rocket science... this is a hint that maybe Steem needs to offer an easier way to acquire the tokens.

    The other problem is that just spending 20 bucks is not going to change much. It is something like 14 Steem tokens at the moment, so while it will increase your voting power multiple times it will not be enough to seriously make a difference when you are curating and voting for good posts... you will simply need more than that.

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    Maybe if everyone spent 20 bucks on a bit of steempower, together it could make a bit of difference.
    I did it https://steemit.com/steemit/@ottodv/upvote-value-increase-for-20-euros-worth-of-steem-power to see how it goes.
    Then I just wanted more, so now I've invested about half a Bitcoin in Steem power.