From Scammer to Saint

I stumbled upon this video recently and being a Steemian and knowing about the blockchain advantages it really brought up my hopes of a much brighter future for the people that don't have it as good as us who aren't living in developing countries.

Before I get more into it, watch the video and think about what you as a blockchain enthusiast already know about its advantages and how many of the steps taken in the videos will become obsolete in the near future.

This video was recently shared on Reddit by the youtuber Pleasant Green.

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Middlemen, middlemen, middlemen.

From Indiegogo to Western Union to Banks, all of these will soon become obsolete for the people using blockchain technology. For most of you that is already old news, but imagine that 99% of the people in the world are still not aware of the big changes in innovation this tech is bringing us.

Joel who was the person to contact the youtuber already had access to the internet, and that's all it will take to make all this possible without needing to use middlemen. Not only will it be a lot more efficient, fast and secure but it will also save unnecessary fees for all parties involved.

In the video above the youtuber had to use Indiegogo which is a crowdfunding platform that takes fees for their operations, these fees won't be necessary on the Steem blockchain.

He was then going to use Western Union to wire him money, which also takes massive fees and is not even available every day. The Steem blockchain runs forever.

Then his bank disabled his transfer thinking someone had hacked his details. Sure this could be good in a way but with the way Steem is designed, private keys, posting and active keys and even a way to recover your account in case of a hack. You won't be needing others looking over your account activity and delay your transfers.

Do you see how all this time and effort will be obsolete with blockchain tech?

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This was a really awesome video, showing us that given the benefit of the doubt every once in a while and giving people some trust, something wonderful can be accomplished.
I am grateful to have stumbled upon a platform that will be able to do all of this in a much more efficient way.

For some of you who are not aware, something similar to what happened in the video is already happening on Steemit with great success. Check out this post from the account @schoolforsdg4 which is handled by @azizbd!

Make sure to follow him!

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I am looking forward to next year as I believe the adoption rate will multiply even more than it has so far.

Let me know in the comments what you think about this. :)