I start to understand a little bit about Steemit 我好像有点懂steemit了

My dear steemians:

As you can see from my homepage, I’ve joined steemit for half a year. However, I only started to blog intensely since last month, I didn’t write a single word for a period of four months. Why? I guess because I didn’t know what steemit is about. I thought it is just a social platform where instead of sharing your stories and pictures for free (like Facebook )you get paid for your work. Why do you get paid? Of course because your work is worthy. But, no, it is too subjective to evaluate if someone’s article is worthy or just a waste of time. I get discouraged, I don’t think people in this community would be interested to read my stuff, which are too literary or artsy. As time pass by, I get to know more about “crytocurrency”, “blockchain”, “privacy transparency”, “decentralized governance”, I start to realize there is a greater message this steemchain is carrying.

It is not a community full of programers, or more precisely, the programmers are not only programmers, they are thinkers, as you can see from @Dan’s article “Does Freedom Require Radical Transparency or Radical Privacy?”, he was picturing a decentralized world, where transparency of privacy grants us more freedom.

Of course this structure has so many problems, such as buying votes, charging steempower to up vote yourself, leaving affected replies to grovel to Big Whale for their votes. Some antisocial type people get discouraged more because they just hate socializing. But the creators and some community members are contributing more to upgrade it. Such as OCD project @acid @htliao which intends to uncover articles that are written with great efforts and superior quality but are undervalued(below 10 SBD).

As far as I am concerned, steemit is a platform which stands amid content dominant sites and social websites. Content is important? yes, but it is not that important, since if no one is building this platform and providing you service and upvoting your post, your article will be wasted anyway. Conclusion: be grateful, don’t get distracted by steem value or other user’s wallet. Complain less, write more.

CN区的朋友大家好：

今天上海兔子也想跟大家聊聊steemit, 技术性的东西我谈论不了，就说说感性认识吧。其实加入steemit有小半年了，跟我同时期加入的，如果能坚持认真写作，应该reputation都在60+了，我却中间有四个月的时间完全没有写作，现在想想，真是大大的失误啊。为什么会这样的呢？一是，我加入steemit的是七月份，七八月份是我工作最忙的时候，有时候下班回到家都10点了，又困又累，没时间写。二是，我对stemmit的理解非常有限，不知道这不完全是一个内容分享平台，这是更是一个社交平台，不知道去follow人,也不知道去给别人的好文章点赞。

十二月中旬的时候，随着我跟风买了一点点比特币，又开始重新了解这个平台，去思考一些概念，比如“虚拟货币”“区块链”“去中心化”“隐私透明”，我发现我好像进入了一个全新的世界，特别是读了Dan那篇关于自由的文章，第一次我对未来世界充满了希望，我觉得我长期百思不得其解的问题（比如如何避免政府独裁，民主被少数人滥用）有了一种新的解答。

同时，2018年必然是区块链技术和虚拟货币的大年，越来越多的角色加入，如何甄别真伪也成了让人头疼的问题。最近在读《Mastering bitcoin》，打算用2个星期的时间仔细阅读，期待跟大家分享笔记。

最后想说，steemit社区仍然有很多问题，但也有很多致力于解决这些问题的个人或小团体，我对此很乐观，文章内容有没有价值本身就是很主观的一种判断，坚持记录即可。何况，自己内在的进步不是才最重要么？如果有一天steemit社区没了，依然有人愿意看你的文章，为你的文章买单，那不才是最大的收获么？

谢谢阅读！