STEEM a ponzi scheme ?
I'm new here and relatively new to cryptos. I see these whales on here with massive amounts of steem power! I imagine once their steem power is redeemable and they start cashing out it could be very bad for steem. https://steemit.com/steem/@mikeduck/just-lost-usd50-dollars-buying-steem . That happened before I converted some steem to SP ,I didn't do enough research , didn't realize it would be locked up for 2 years. Now steem is up about 20% and my account value is still down about $50 can't help but to feel a duped... Hope it'll be worth more in 2 years . 
you'll get most of your steem back way before then. it may take a couple months but still.
I hope you're right! It's just I'm not one who is normally very active posting/commenting/liking stuff on any social media platform. But I Guess on here there is a reason to.
Yea you'll be happy you did.
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