For the most part, I still have to go through an exchange to buy and sell Steem, but there are a few local Steemians who have sold it to me for cash. I just need for it to go up again (and have a lot in liquid form) so I can put fiat aside for emergencies.

As for use-cases, I am always looking for more use-cases so that I can do a whole lot on the block-chain. I know that I could send you some Steem and it will be in your account in seconds, on the other side of the planet. That’s amazing. No waiting time, no fees unless you go through an exchange.

Are there a lot of Steemians where you are? Could you start a meet up group?
We have a good group and we recently had a Christmas BBQ down at the beach. It was a lot of fun.

i actually think that pepo/ost has real world crypto use too.

@elsiekjay You're right: This is an awesome platform, because we're Rewarded for the time we invest in our work.
Congrats for the fact that you invest your time to create Meaningful content, through which you inspire people!
Now that we're done with the positive side,
- How about we have a sneak peek in the rabbit hole?

The movie the Matrix is a Documentary. At least from my perspective.
You can take a seat, you can take a deep breath, because it's time to explore our Tough game called Reality, between us and evil. I'm NOT good at sharing Tough stuff so here they are:
- How can we be Free as long as we live in a Control system?

Free people ca NOT be controlled, so long as we live in a Control system we do NOT evolve, rather we experience the illusion of improvement:
- We improve the Control system,
- We self-improve Within the control system.

It just seems to me that we're Missing the point because we're Charmed by better currencies, by better platforms. I'm not saying innovation is not good. Cryptocurrency might be Better than fiat because it's Decentralized. The danger might be our focus.
- How can we reach the Next level of our game where there is NO financial system as long as we focus on how awesome this system is?

Why do we live in a Control system?
Did you know that everything is done through People?
We live in a Control system:
- Because we Sell necessities,
- Because we do Not have enough necessities,
- Because we use the resources of the planet for Poison and other stuff that are Not necessities,
- Because People create Demand for poison through their Everyday Choices
- Because their Destructive, Frail, Fake nature chooses for them
- Because they're Not aware.

Most are not aware of the Basics. The good news is that the basics are so Simple that they can be summarized in 1 phrase:
- the control system NO longer exists when there is NO demand for it.

People don't talk about the cause of our problem, because the cause is our everyday choices, and as long as people are Not aware, they are Not willing to give up stuff that are Not necessities, so we Continue living in a Control system.
- Who wants to be a slave?

Nobody, so
- Why do people work hard to Build our own Enslavement (a scenario they don't want)?

Consider the following 2 scenarios:
- As long as we do NOT have a normal world (the Next level of our game) in our mind, we're gonna create better currencies, better forms of Control, so we remain in our much Loved Control system.
How can we reach a destination as long as it does NOT exist in our mind?
- When we have the direction of the Next level in our mind, we might have More chances to reach it.

Which scenario is better?
After 12 of education system we know Nothing. Why?
Our government does NOT include education in the education system because UNeducated people are easier to Control.
My guess is that there is NO fault: From the moment we're born:
- We're conditioned to be frail, because Frail people choose what's Easy,
- We're conditioned to be beneficial for Control: Knowledge is kept Hidden and we receive Lies beneficial for control (the Wrong map),

so the Solution might be simpler than it may seem:
- Winning our game might be about getting the message (Knowledge, the Basics) across.

More important might be what are we doing Now (while we still can) about it.
People have positive intentions and this does Not matter.
- As long as they have the Wrong map (The Control system), they invest their positive intentions in the Wrong direction (in Reinforcing the Control system).
- Positive intentions make sense only when we have the Right map.

And by the fact that we choose what's Easy (Passivity) we Perpetuate this Nonsense. The good :) news is that our game is not over. A scenario in which people are aware, is a scenario we can Create, only when we're Responsible. We have the Power to Create educational content - through which we can wake people up and we can combine the 2 solutions:
- We can share the Basics and
- We can make a living by selling Necessities,

By doing so we might have a chance to reach the Next level of our game where there is a superabundance of Necessities, at this point there is NO enslavement, and we can focus on Evolution. How simple is that?
Life on planet Earth can look different. Winning Our game is NOT automatic.
Unless we wake people up in Good time, we Lose our game.
I was unaware of these facts. Only recently I connected some dots. There are so Many levels Beyond this one and people are Not aware of this. People are Misled. This is Not right. I believe people deserve to have to have Clarity, the Full map. That's why I feel Responsible to share the Right map.
1 of our problems is that people believe the control system is mandatory. They say:
- We can't do something about it. We're too small.

This might happen because they don't know the context.
Did you know that the control system is NOT mandatory?
Evil exists as a challenge.
- Isn't this the whole Point of our game: To experience Epic Evolution by Overcoming our Epic Challenge?

There are many stuff to be said about Winning Our game. That's exactly why I created an educational show: to share my perspective about it.
- What's Your opinion about it?

Our game doesn't last forever: the latest Regulations for content creators are only the beginning, soon enough, we end up in a world of total Control, of total Censorship, in a point of NO return, in which we can NO longer work for winning our game, so the question is:
- How can we wake people up in Good time?

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