That is a tricky question. Do I think that school students would benefit from , and enjoy Steem? Yes. But the challenge is to get them to take the time it takes to sign up and learn about it.

My father and I talked about this, and we think there are four obstacles: Days of waiting for account completion, confusion about the need for keys and the long master password, widespread suspicion of cryptocurrency, and absence of trendiness.

I have advertised Steem for 4 years in any and every way to anyone and everyone who would hear me (everyone in my school has heard about it at some point), and yet only a small number of people from my school joined, only a few posted at all, and only 1 actually stuck around for more than a few weeks.

For recruiting from schools, my father thinks that there's something to be learned from the way Facebook began its roll-out in the early 2000s by focusing on and saturating one college at a time, and I think that it's important to reward posts that don't require long attention spans but still demonstrate quality.