Four months ago I stood in awe of the Steem community, I watched amazed and full of emotion as a near impossible idea became a reality, the first Steem Billboard was crowdfunded from a Steemit post grossing 27 000 Steem Dollars, because the community came together and believed in a dream!

At one time we were proud to spread the word and let the world see that "WE ARE STEEM"!

Our posts would receive magnificent rewards and we were close to the cusp of mass adoption. Today we wearily post and get scraps for our content, developers of projects like Steemvoter.com reap rewards of less than 60 Dollars across several posts instead of the glorious days where innovative projects like @xeroc's piston.rocks would gross over 40 000 Dollars!

There is little incentive to innovate now, but together we can make a difference and make our platform great again, all we need is to remember who we are, re-ignite our identity as the greatest and most collaborative blockchain community!

Months ago I started as a nobody on the platform, but the community raised me up, together we placed billboards in three countries with the @steemdrive campaign, we created a "free bet" sporting content machine called @steemsports, and we took an ordinary person from a Steem newbie to number 27 witness as I stand today; I remember many who once stood beside me have fallen and are no longer with us, no more!

We will lose no more of our friends by the wayside!

Stand with me and I will lead you to victory!

TODAY WE STAND

TODAY WE FIGHT

TODAY WE RECLAIM OUR FREEDOM!

No more low post values, crowdfunding should be easier than this, before we could crowdfund billboards in one post!

I even spoke with @xeroc once and envisaged we could crowdfund properties to be owned by the Steem community and the rental income distributed to all holders of Steem, we could create demand for our currency from the prime properties we own together! This was once my dream! We can be great again if we believe!

As a start, I am on a mission to save and develop the steemvoter.com service for the benefit of our community as per my recent post so we can swarm and vote our friends and deserving authors.

Today we rescue Steemvoter together! Let us raise at least a 1000 Dollar post (edit) and show that it is still possible!

I pledge to "Raise our Empire" and have powered up with 300 Steem! Will you do the same for Steem! Power up with 300 Steem or as much as you can and vote this post and let us be great again!

300 Steem - Rise of an Empire!!

Let's keep Steemvoter.com alive so we can all be Curator Angels!

Vote for thecryptodrive witness!

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CROWDFUND STATS SO FAR

Direct Donations:

@cryptomancer 10 SBD
@merej99 10 SBD
@steemdrive 734.298 SBD
@thecryptodrive 316 SBD
@thecryptofiend 10 SBD

Total Donations: 1080.298 SBD

Total Crowdfund so far: 1,373.034 SBD (Donations + Post Rewards)

New Donations:

@craig-grant 15 SBD
@steemvoter 7.804 SBD (sent on behalf of @remlaps)
@virtualgrowth 6.668 STEEM
@pharesim 150 SBD
@exploretraveler 5 SBD

Target Crowdfund: 3600.00 USD

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