We did! The free Netcoins listing worth $30,000 goes to Steem! Thanks to all of us who voted and helped to push STEEM (the token) and Steem (the blockchain) to greater success!

I think the results came in yesterday (at least that's when I noticed posts about us winning).

The Competition

The heat was on with PAC Coin early on, then we passed them near 6,000 votes. Then it was VERGE, which we passed near 12,000 votes. Then it was INS who was catching up to us out of nowhere as we went to 17,000 votes.

Those three top "competitors" didn't even have a community of real people behind them which comes anywhere close to what Steem has. Yet they were often battling it out with us for votes. Obviously, they were cheating. I think more of us needed to cheat to try to beat them.

The Community

Although we only managed to get over 19,000 votes on a platform of over 1,000,000 accounts, and about 30,000 active accounts, we still did it. But those numbers show how some users on the platform carried the platform to a win in this contest.

Not all users started to vote right away on the first day, since many of us didn't know about it (which includes me). Eventually more people paid attention to posts about the Netcoins contest, and more joined in. I started to vote on the 16th, late at night, and made my first post on the 17th, which gave me 4 full days to vote.

Now, if we take 4 days as an average for most people to start getting involved, that means only about 5,000 people participated by voting each day (4 votes per day X 5,000 people = 20,000 votes). And we know that some people were using VPNs, different browsers and emails (like myself) to try to beat the other coins with their obvious cheating. That means there was likely less than 5,000 people voting for 4 days.

Even if we take an average of 3 days to obtain 20,000 votes, that's still only over 6,00 people voting (6,666) at best. That is a pretty weak number for community involvement for a platform with over 1,000,000 "accounts", of which only about 30,000 are probably people who do something now and then and even less who are active each week. Voting wasn't that hard to do, it took max 30 seconds each day to do.

Anyways, we made it!

Thank you again everyone who voted and posted about it to get other people's attention and votes!

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