My effort to get Steem featured on the Business Insider network
Browsing finance twitter this morning and saw this tweet from Henry Blodget, the founder, editor and CEO of Business Insider:
This no use case argument had been bugging me lately - the primary use case for crypto is, and always was, sending money from A to B quickly and at very little (or zero!) cost.
The problem is, as far as mainstream media is concerned, there is Bitcoin and Ethereum and that's about it. Due to these networks' flawed POW models, rapid appreciation -> rising tx costs, both networks have essentially rendered themselves obsolete for sending money. This has led to people with limited knowledge of the space saying crypto is useless.
Never one to miss an opportunity to plug Steem to a traditional finance/media influencer, I thought I'd pipe up:
I'd been thinking of plugging Steem to the Sydney editor, Paul Colgan (@Colgo), in this manner for some time and this seemed like the perfect opportunity!
I'm not sure how many offices they have worldwide and maybe a minute is a bit of a tall ask considering the human element, but I'm pretty definite we could do it in under 2 minutes regardless. If we could automate the process, a minute would be a piece of cake.
I'm yet to hear back from either Colgo or Henry, but interact with Colgo regularly and have received responses from Henry in the past. Having Steem featured across Business Insider's global mastheads would provide the network and coins with truly priceless exposure - fingers crossed. Will update this post if/when I receive a response.
PS if any devs out there could help out with a script to automate transmission of STEEM/SBD between a string of accounts and back to the origin account, leave a comment below and I'll give you a shout if they are interested in running the experiment. We'd need a UI where I could input the origin account, intermediary accounts and active keys for each.
Donate the insider some steem, that should work ;)
The fastest and surest way of getting Steem into mainstream exposure is to have Donald Trump tweeted about it.
Imagine if he did!
The future of Steem lies in the mighty thumb of Donald Trump! Only one tweet is needed and voila, price teleports to the next galaxy.
But then Steem would be overrun with rabid Trump supporters....
Disagreement of ideas happen all the time, anywhere. Ideas are like ass holes. You have yours, I have mine. Feel the beat of freedom else Facebook would be best suited for you where you get locked out simply by not using your real name.
I actually fully agree with you. My favorite thing about Steem is that it's a censorship-proof blockchain with room for all voices, even the one's that I disagree with.
Not actually a censorship-proof platform because if you disagree with my content, you can simply down-vote my post(s) at whim. Money is the supreme law here.
This is not a good thing. This is also not a bad thing. But according to Murphy's law.
Hahaha it isn't already?
Hmmm interesting ... it would be hard to draw his attention to it without him blocking you
Nah, I don't think so. You've got to do it in a clever way. The moment Trump realizes the beauty of Steem Power, he'd definitely power up like hell and make Steemit his secondary social media of choice, second to Twitter.
Not only that, die-hard Hillary fantards will catch up and power up too making the Steem price go to the sky. And you think Obama will let himself biting the dust? You wish! Bittrex is about to crash for real.
Last but not the least, this will prevent the eminent nuclear war, as Kim Jong-un will power up too like a porn star allowing the Steem valuation to surpass Bitcoin's market cap. And finally this will promote peace because there will no longer be nuclear wars whatsoever but flagging war instead between political heavyweights.
What about Putin? The list can go on, and on, and on.
Now, isn't that a good news for all Steem stakeholders and minnows alike? Donald Trump will also make Steemit great again. This is my technical analysis without using those silly charts.
If you enjoy what you read here and/or you think this will make you profitable, please do encourage me to do more technical analysis like this and buy me a beer. Cheers!
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lol its an idea, make it worth his wild
What a nice post from an intelligent writer more of it you have to know how to get the fasttest way and surest way if getting steem...
t sure is nice to see that more people are becoming brand ambassadors for Steem! However, it is important to always maintain proper communication etiquette while doing so.
Steem on and Happy New Year everyone
A nice post from intelligent writer more of it keep it up,donate some steem ,which would work
Agreed
Ha. not a bad idea!
steem is undervalued like hell unbeliveble, why is the price so stable and the grow so little?
Agree, so much demand for SP right now.
This is an outstanding move! Steem and Steemit will certainly prevail when members go above and beyond to promote the platform and blockchain. If there is anything else I can do to support this effort, please let me know. I've resteemed to bring it the extra exposure it deserves! Thanks @bulleth
Thanks mate - much appreciated!
Ahh this kind of grass roots support is totally appreciated. Hope you manage succeed with this!
Good idea.
yes
That is great. I think it is due to initiatives like these Steem will find wide adoption and finally get what it deserves.
That is great. I think it is due to initiatives like these Steem will find wide adoption and finally get what it deserves.
Why don't you use BitShares?
See @josephsavage's comment, Bitshares has fees and network aside would still need to automate to do it in under a minute I think.
PS Bitshares is buggy af - I think something would go wrong. Hopefully gets better when it moves to EOS.
I agree with all your points. Bitshares is such a pain in the arse.
The advantage to Steem over bitshares in this example is that Steem has no transactions fees, while bitshares has a nominal transaction fee.
For the purpose of sending 'fiat' values from one business office to another, bitShares would be a better network because you could send bitUSD or bitAUS(?) and not have to worry about changes during send, but then transacting out of bitShares is even more complicated. so there's that
I don't really care much about ultra penny TX fee. Maybe it serves a purpose of deterring any malicious act of flooding the network with empty blocks. What I disliked about Bitshares is that, it is painful to the eyes to navigate the platform. They seem to over-complicate simple things. Not recommended for noobs, it's the equivalent of Linux in OS.
I already sold my little collections of BTS in order to buy Lumens. Stellar has a more potential for global adaption compares to BitShares. A truly non-profit organization aimed to make currency transfer smooth and seamless. Stellar will be the next big thing when it comes to utility--a sleeping giant.
I haven't researched Stellar very much yet, but I will look into it.
Stellar Lumens' grandest goal is simply Stellar, IMO. For long term HODL.
Business Insider Network is not working properly. If you want I can describe it.
Sorry, not quite sure what you mean. If you could elaborate that would be great :)
I'm not above bribery in cases of such vital importance. In fact, the writers should be writing on Steemit. We'll show them first hand how much crypto can change their lives for the better.
Hahaha maybe it would work, personally I'm making more writing here than freelancing, but their writers are a little further ahead in their careers than me!
It's getting harder for everyone out there. The first ones to make the switch to Steemit will make the most. Then it will get increasingly competitive. As is the way of capitalism. Make hay whilst the sun shines and all that.
@bulleth I am behind you 110% on this and if it happens it will be a huge Boost to STEEMIT......
Thanks buddy - always a pleasure!