My daughter told me she was going to dream about penguins tonight and in the morning she would tell me about her dreams, which is always about what she said it was going to be. It is a bit of a ritual we have - although tomorrow morning I have a 6 am flight out of the country and will have to be up at 4, so won't get to hear about her dreams.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to plan a dream before hand and then actually have that dream? What would that mean for when dreams come true?

At least for me, I don't think that I would dream about paying all of the taxes I just paid and I shudder to think how much equivalent Steem it would be.

I just did the math. A bit more than a triple dolphin.

It is pretty insane really, as I work very hard to earn the Steem I hold yet in the grand scheme of my life, the amounts are insignificant considering the country in which I live. some people might deem this crazy, but there is something compelling about working for what is earned over buying it. Sure, I buy also, but that is because I want to invest into the future here. The thing that keeps me writing is the ability to turn my work into something I value.

It is kind of like building something in the shed as a hobby, it isn't as good as a bought one, but it holds sentimental value. While some people don't believe in Proof of Brain, the work is getting done in the head, and likely in the proverbial heart a bit too. Some may think being positive on Steem crazy, but it is actually quite rational as we value the things that we put work into.

The first line of buy-in isn't with money, it is in the decision to move and that is based on the belief that the decision is valid and the terms acceptable. Some feel it isn't worth the work, like the many people who chose not or stopped mining Bitcoin because it didn't have enough value for them to start or continue. In hindsight they might have wished they had done differently.

Imagine if you could plan your dream for Steem price and know that it was going to come true, but you didn't have the money to spend to buy and had to earn. Would your level of work and how you interact change at all?

Would you tell anyone your future?

One of my friends said something funny today along the lines of

"Can you imagine if Steem blew up and the price skyrocketed and the platform became a household name. You'd be an instant celebrity of some kind."

Lol.

As much as I want Steem to blow up, price skyrocket and mainstream - I don't want to be a celebrity of any kind.

But perhaps it would be inevitable.

It is interesting as when it comes to normal investing, the early adopters aren't necessarily ever going to be "known" widely no matter how well the company does. However on Steem that is a bit different because everyone here is already somewhat public and all of the past actions (on the blockchain) have been recorded. According to Steemitboard, I am the 326th largest holder of Steem Power.

Not bad for three years work.

But this is a pretty interesting account for a week old:

Bithumb is 10 million Steem lighter this week.

That is 8 percent of the entire liquid supply.

It is still liquid there but if powered up, would deliver a 125 dollar vote 10x a day.

It is quite incredible that any of this is possible at all by my measure, that we can write and post and earn tokens that hold value. Not just value to us, value to others also. While a lot of people might not consider it themselves, a lot of others are buying off the exchanges and that means one thing in their head,

they believe the price is going up.

Why would they buy otherwise? We are all rational actors in an economy but our rationalization of choices isn't necessarily a rational decision for everyone. People who are heavily risk averse will rationally make different decisions to those who are open to risk and accepting of the consequences - The, don't invest what you aren't willing to lose completely people.

Each will rationalize the why or why not's in order to fit their situation, and in hindsight rationalize again to either accept or lament their past decisions. For me, I have spent too much of my life in a risk averse mindset for investing my own money, but things changed.

What changed for me was that I was able to get a soft start into crypto investing through Steem and all I had to do for it was the work involved to earn. This replaced the risk of losing my money that I was highly averse to, with the loss of my work instead - something that I am quite open to. While I still see work as an investment, this layer that remove the feeling of direct loss of money helped me come to terms with risk and over time start understanding it in a way that allows me to now invest more then my time alone.

As I have said many times, I find Steem enormously compelling in many ways that keep my interest piqued every time I am on the platform. While I love to write, I also like reading, chatting, commenting, voting, looking at the numbers, trying to stay up to date with the tech, searching for new content, trading a little bit and of course - speculating on what factors mean individually and more importantly, in clusters.

What does a 7-day-old account that if powered up, would be the 4th largest account on Steem mean?

The three above it are Steemit Inc owned - the one below is Freedom.

Is it another Steemit Inc account? A new mysterious whale? Justin Sun?

Steem is a cocktail of factors that are further complicated by the social aspects and the fact that so much of what goes on is traceable to some degree, which means there are a lot of opportunities to creatively think and as we see time and time again, emotionally react.

If you could plan your dreams, would you be able to create the complexity of Steem?

This place is pretty great. But obviously, I am biased as fuck.

@rap7tq6vu58ujg - Are you going to power up?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]