To the question in your title, my Magic 8-Ball says:Very doubtful
Hi! I'm a bot, and this answer was posted automatically. Check this post out for more information.

The speed of this sort-of-relevant response is to me what’s amazing about bots. Thanks for literally answering my question.

lol.

In this case it's statistically appropriate. Otherwise you wouldn't have to promote it! So I'm with you in loving the bot.

Hmmm. New to your Steem Community, but your response to this bot surprised me @ned. Yes, speed, but what else of any real value?

While I am trying to keep an open mind, I have struggled so far to see the point of these in a blockchain ostensibly designed to promote " human interaction."

Any thoughtful links / input, of which you are aware, that makes a positive "value proposition" for them "in here?"

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@haikubot is fucking hilarious.

What do you think of the new ONO social network? will it be the Yoko Ono of steemit?

yea the 8ball is funky hahahaha. greez, s. error

this is very good, i will try to see it.

Missed this one. Will watch now.

You guys really need to be engaging with the community more.

@kabir88

I'm actually not a technical guy @ned but if oracle will help steem then I offer my hands and legs in support, when will it be?

It's not Oracle as in the company but blockchain oracles.

> An oracle, in the context of blockchains and smart contracts, is an agent that finds and verifies real-world occurrences and submits this information to a blockchain to be used by smart contracts.

(Source)

I have actually not listen to this yet. Added to my watch later list :) need to learn some more about it specially because I have invested some on XAP eheheh

Hey Ned, @shenanigator here commenting from my other account. I'm involved with an SMT project and we're anxiously awaiting their release. What do you think about the progress SMT development? How are they coming along?

I'm very interested in these SMT. I look forward when we can use them! Steem on!

Great Algorithm, Through This realistic person who has very good quality content, can grow their community very fast...
thank you :) Keep in Touch Sir @amar15 I wanna learn a lot from you

Thank you for shering this Mr.
Good day Sir.

Yeah, definitely. I've been waiting for it to take place finally! Great work!

Yes, I saw this @ned. Very encouraging to see development in action like this. SMT's will be HUGE! Thank you for posting :)

-Ken

hi, ned.
I miss you.

I really believe in steem and whatever would make steem stable and steemit community happier, am down for it... smt.steem.io here i come...lol! Kudos @Ned!

Master @ned, why is the Steemit UI looks very amateurish? No money? I don't believe so. Or are you deliberately, purposely neglecting the appearance of your website? Tell me the truth, master.

I am preparing the next generation.

Sometimes we need to completely obsolete ourselves to compete at all. In other words, do we want a paintjob or new electronics, new chassis, new engine?

I knew the power down was for a new car. So the Bugatti Veyron? Just kidding, your money don't let others tell you how to spend it.

New Philosophy.
Relatively Original Thinking.
Modern Renaissance.
Patron Age
DemoCrazy
MindSpace.

I’m [almost certainly] leaving, and you’re also absolutely losing someone who might actually sound like a garden variety egomaniacal ignoramus,

But I’ll ask you again,

To please identify a number of creative visionaries on “Steemit”.

Without a great success, where the FUCK does stsem go?

I’m annoyed tbh.

You have the POWER to DRAW OUT DIAMOND IDEAS.

Bernie says I’m crazy.

But remember Ned, I’m actually the one only here who ever dared suggest he might possess an intellectual collection vastly exceeding B Franklins.

Also, franklins knights pretended crypto knights, who ride knight mares, made by Boston Dynamics.

Ned you’re Going on the “I told you show”, most likely, with Bernie and Fyrst,

Unless you grow a pair,

And pretend as if there’s ingenious here.

Lol, I’m Great or Crazy, and it’s fun.

Watch some of my videos and flag them if you’re sure I’m out of mind, and not like Trees Gump’s T saying saying #7 “I’m out of my mind, where all new ideas reside”, but negatively.

I come from the top of our world.

I am a super capitalist day traitor.

I will only build my inventions via DemoCrazy.

You didn’t even really earn your wealth yet ned.

You ran a company after Dan finished the chain.

95% of people still leave.

50% of the users are poor and desperate for change.

Yada yada yada.

Who’s your brightest character?

Not even saying it’s me.

Fucking @ackza talks shit to me lol.

“You can’t sell inventing without venting”

One real question.

If I’m starting “VentShirt Capital” for real.

Commissioning illustrations on all 420 of my “Ideas”.

Selling InvesT-Shirts and raising mad capital, with our investors able to wear their stock.

And I’m going to use a blockchain.

How do SMT’s serve us?

Alx

We the people so called, perhaps our only real governance option, is some variation of voluntary constitutional demoCRAZY.

It’ll start in the private sector.

Eventually the citizens of the world will adopt much greater governance models.

Yes, possible a one world governance, if not a one world government.

are you really afraid more of the Mob,

Than the Aristo Crazy?

“just words” :)

Await to see the next phase of the steemi UI aside the Beta version. Guess you have something good coming

Good luck

My account owner or active password forget me my steem power is not transfer in any account plzz give solution

Recommendation for new paintjob: updates needed in the SMT white paper/website

Ned got good amount of people and now it will be like on others sites? (One vote - one man.)

I am working to make one interesting site, that will help steemit to get users. This site will show to youtube people and others blog sites steemit option.

Approximate recreation of STEEM price after the SMT launch
https://media.giphy.com/media/AbYxDs20DECQw/giphy.gif

Till then

https://media.giphy.com/media/T5dY3WToxaYHC/giphy.gif

Dan working on EOS in meanwhile
https://media.giphy.com/media/LNKBLt58WwBJC/giphy.gif

I watched it till its last second @ned but it seems there is something I don’t understand. Since we move on to one person one vote, how can the oracles solve the problem of trails. I mean there are dozens of accounts followed by trails.

For example account A creats a post and in the next 30 minutes he receives 400 votes of ‘unique and ‘good’ behavior users’ as you mentioned.
And the question is: is this actually a problem or I just see it as one?

Bottom line is that smts are gonna solve lots of problems the way I see it.
Thanks in advance for a possible response

I love this question! I was actually thinking of asking something similar to this, you're amazing!
Master @ned could you please provide answer to this question regarding one person one vote for users who have trails, is this gonna stop tails?.
> is this actually a problem or I just see it as one?

It's amazing great developments are being carried our on SMT thanks!

From what is explained, is like they wont be a trial but if they wont, maybe they will be a means of verifying them.

There is going to be big drama, some might leave the system while those who knows what value is will stay.

Will be watching to see how it goes

Hello, how excellent! I want to thank @Ned for creating and developing this fantastic platform, which allows all the people who come to her to express themselves in the way they wish! Thank you!
Additionally, I would like to invite you to observe this publication that I had the great honor you will perform on me, and you can give me your opinion about it! And observe the great work that this excellent user imparts as @Cervantes is for the Hispanic community of which I am a part! Thank you so much for everything!

And I am sorry for my english don't very good :D

Here ,the link of the publication : https://steemit.com/spanish/@cervantes/cervantes-presenta-sinvistaalsol

Cervantes is one of the big culprits that the Hispanic community is like this...With its populist ways of acting worthy of Maduro in Venezuela, it is destroying the Hispanic community ... and wants to be the only one who has power in the community... if see that someone starts to grow and is not their group it destroys you... I do not understand how many Venezuelans complain about their government regime but they are part of Cervantes ...

I really learned a lot and enjoyed this post containing the video. Thank you for sharing this @ned.

Thanks for sharing the video

I just wanted to suggest a little closer when they write a text on the page to go through the conversation coherently, otherwise, the problem of why a vote is not equivalent to a document is because then people would abuse that ghost accounts are created, from there that they will create the reputation. Only is my opinion

hmm, is making all this more complicated the way to make it go mainstream?

Most users won't have to deal directly with oracles, I think. So it's not going to make things more complicated for the average Steem user. And any SMT that uses a one account one vote system will actually be easier to understand for most people, and therefore have more potential to go mainstream.

Yeah, I was thinking about that, someone could build a simplified version using this that people might be more attracted to and actually retain its users.

Considering the current price of STEEM and the direction it is headed.
Now would be a good time to implement something to reverse the trend.

If you are looking at the price then you are looking at the wrong metrics. Price doesn't matter.

exactly right.
when I purchase something price doesn't matter.

When you buy yes. But cryptocurrency is a long 10 year game. No point in looking at stuff in short term.

maybe steemit inc whales could power down and sell more to make steem cheap for the rest

SURE!
that sounds like a plan.
oh wait...

what do you consider cheap?
right now steem is $1.32...and people are crying.
do you want it to go back to it's hysterical low of $0.08?
would that make you happy?

0.08 would be awesome to buy in from

The price is relative to bitcoins performance so until the bottom is in proper is unclear what is know is bearmarket still in place and key levels being broken easily next up is psychological price level @ $5900 that breaks and stays below could be a cold winter then again could rise again as in the past and make back everything in 10 days, who knows...

yes $0.08c would be very happy

i could get 2 whale accounts one to upvote and one to flag :D

maybe $0.02c might be better can get 6 whale accounts then, have 5 to flag and one to vote :P

Reputations... That's meant to be a major differentiating factor that this platform possesses.
Nice work. Awaiting hardfork...

Do this means we will not see haejin upvoting himself with other accounts?
People making all kinds of bots and selling votes?
Can oracles make people stop cheat the system for self benefit?

Shit, i actually think you're moving towards DemoCrazy™. SMT's could "almost certainly" handle it, but who knows. We'd have to talk. Is the goal the collection of a ton of speculative money, to make our own tokens worth a ton, or the utilization of a chain, to produce some kind of "Great Shit", that then facilitates innovation and earnings. I don't want @fyrstikkens pool of money buying attention for crap. I want people IRL, looking at what y'all and us'all have "Created", and "PAYING". Also, "INVESTING". But not to predict a rise based entirely on speculation of human behavior.

Steem isn't dead yet. There are parts of this i really like.

ONE ORACLE to INSPIRE THEM ALL maybe?

I think i'll do an SMT and an ORACLE. And i'll personally interview people. Start slow as hell. Only with those who'll sign the constitution.

F good people, we'll look for GREAT ONES.

What makes a GREAT person?

Tell me ned! lol.

shhhhh,it happens

if the wealth in steemit is not better distributed and the powerful do not begin to delegate more cheaply instead of selling votes, yes, steemit is going to die

My accound owner or active password forget me my steem power is not transfer in any account plzz give solution

I think there are many doubts in this whole matter:

.- With Oracles do you really improve the capabilities of Smart Media Tokens (SMT)?

.- It will be more equitable that a SMT is paid based on the individuality of the voter, paying additional rewards, in the form of a new token, based on "1 account, 1 vote"?

.- Really Steem is working with the noble intention to take advantage of properly reward the wisdom of the crowd in order to discover authors with contents of high quality and originality to give public and notorious exposure?

.- Everything really will improve with equity taking into account greater effort = greater reward (PoB&QE = Proof of Brain and Quality Effort), based on the new system?

Excuseme @ned, but I am very confused with all this... Are you preparing the new era?

I see you've done power down steem. hopefully this is not a bad thing for steemit

Let's see the results of Oracle in action, we would all be glad if we see all those theories doing fine realistically.
@ned, I will always appreciate your efforts in always working out actions plans to leverage the enhancement of the blockchain.
Thanks.

A little faith my friend. Ned is definitely working round the clock to see the Steem Blockchain gets to it destination. Every invention was once a theory then made a reality, I am very much hopeful

That is perfectly explained and will definitely correct some errors. The Koreans truly have strong faith on the blockchain

So, you are powering down because SMT's are coming? Are you going to dump your stake at the top again and dip the price like you did in January?

Those who don't know what I am talking about, check the @firefire account's history.

Not saying it is wrong but wouldn't you think dumping gradually would decrease the price more slowly instead of a large dump of 0.8 million steem in a few days?

And thanks for using steemit regularly instead of twitter. It gives steemit more credibility.

have you heard of @tostitos

3 million Steem transferred from @steemit2 in November and most sold off in parts with the last 714k Steem sold in one go in march

so they did that also

there is also @alpha and @val-a

@steemit2 transferred over 3 million Steem to @alpha since December withdrawn to bittrex

also @val-a is another steemit inc currently powering down 1 million SP withdrew 100k steem last week

most of this was sold when steem was much higher if you average would be around $15 million USD cashed out

Hi again, thanks for your work investigating transfers, good financial info for those of us who trade and use steem.

maybe he is financing the project, who knows! it's not that easy ma boi, greez , syntax error

Those are not my accounts.

Hey @ned what you think

@ned got no time for us. That plays right in my cell browser, this is a great flow.

his engagment is encouraging

I been eating !popcorn waiting for this engagement and he has yet to respond to me, right @ned...

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I'm afraid our !popcorn will run out soon...

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!popcorn @ned & @misterdelegation

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Do what is right -- that you know is a worthy post....

Succumb to upvoting .. true curation of post that delivers a decent message... just like this post:
https://steemit.com/steem/@intelliguy/the-people-behind-the-words-steem-has-thousands-of-people-writing-content-who-are-you-who-are-they

It speaks volumes, not just for steem itself, or Steemit. -- it gets people thinking.

I'm expecting just the least, where you'll read it and not vote. At the best you'll like the premise and want to upvote it.

...just be aware.. it was written from the heart.. for all of us today.

Abstain or Support. That is your wish... When you rest on your pillow this next night. Be happy with your decision. Did you want this post to be seen, or did you want it to be neglected?

...the power sometimes rests in @ned hands...

Too bad @ned cares less about steemit than you or I, giving millions in delegation to businesses instead of quality curators...sad the type of community he is building...

What do you know about this? I haven't heard who he is delegating to yet.

the blockchain is transparent so we can all see who @ned is delegating to by going to http://steemworld.org/@misterdelegation and to the left click delegations then you can click outgoing... its sad really when you look at it, sold out steemit, sold out quality creators, sold out curation projects that have been helping his platform tirelessly...

I see it now. Thanks. I've used that tool before, but not to look at outgoing delegations. Now it makes sense. Thanks for the tip.

Whaleshares turned off delegations to make things a little more obvious who is doing what with their whalestake (similar to SP)

Interesting this whaleshares...

He also removed delegations from utopian and surpassinggoogle couple of weeks ago while still powering down. Not sure what he is up to though.

He delegates through @misterdelegation

He used to delegate from his own, if you check steemd in 20days he undelegated them already.

That's very dissapointing, the faith of steem seems like it's on a downward spiral because whales can change the markets.

Actually look at STEEM compared to the markets, next to Bitcoin we are holding up better than other crypto's including Etherium!

I believe its due to all that are still here keeping Steemit alive! trading services utilizing the coin daily.

Yes but looking at steem in the last weeks. What are you seeing

Indeed it is dropping drastically yet compare this way.

1 month ago we were at .96 U.S. Dollar per STEEM and I powered up getting 162 STEEM for .5 Eth, today I can get 122.5 STEEM for .5 Ethereum. STEEM went down 30% give or take 2% and Ethereum went down 55% give or take.

I can also see a resistance line coming with a few points why
1. HF20 within a few weeks
2. SMT's within 6 months
3. Holidays, investors will pull out day trading and play crypto again... maybe?
4. China rated STEEM #2 of all crypto wants to have 1 national crypto currency, will that mean crypto goes legal or just that 1? if legal they love STEEM...
5. STEEM has over 400 projects with alot going on already! just needs advertising (@steem-ads)

Interesting and PayPal integrated websites say for example that accept credit cards in return for assets of collectable cards such as steem monsters on the steem blockchain steem would be benefit from the increase of new users jumping on?

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I have not heard of this, sounds interesting can you share a link with more information?

Hello @ned , steemit community is having a huge problem with rouge user @themarkymark and his bots . He is single handedly driving 100's if not 1000's of users from this platform . I hope something can be done about it .
(here is video from one of steemit users that sums up the situation we are facing)
https://youtu.be/3gnH8lxxFQM

hopefully thousands. all spammers.

create your own platform

Nah, I like Steem and want to see it succeed.

Lets hear from the CEO , you are just another nobody here

!popcorn

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keyword here is 'law enforcement' you will be reported everywhere

You do realize you are responding to a popcorn bot right?

I'd really be curious what the charges are.

reported EVERYWHERE , bye

Poor popcorn bot...

Can I interest you in !pancakes while we wait?

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What does "reported" even mean in this context? Nathan Fillion is not the only reason you have my witness vote, but he's one of them, ;)

starting tomorrow

Ned doesn't equal the blockchain though....

That's a one hour video and you just lost your audience at 30secs with the attractive bald guy.

Meh the bloke is a witness @smidge-tv give the bloke some slack ffs

when the 'cleaners' pick you up , you'll be back to watch the whole hour ....

When?

Thanks for the video @ned! I got a question if you don't mind. Is it for certain that the system of the oracle will be applied to the SMT application? I honestly think it's solves many problems if you ask me, i think it's a brilliant idea.
I live in the Netherlands and i got different huge networks around me for different genres, and im waiting for the SMT application.
But now with you video it kind of gives me a strategy to create some platforms for the SMT, and i hope the oracle system will be applied to it.
Thanks for answering!

Hello sir, there is a problem with the SMS verification system at the sign up page, I have friends who are trying to sign up on steemit but the SMS verification system does not send the verification code to their numbers any longer, some times after the input of the phone number it just stays there after they click continue meaning that it doesn't load to the page where they wait for the SMS code, they have been trying for two days straight sir.
And again the 2 weeks wait period some people have stayed longer than that and they still haven't been sent a link..
Please reply as soon as you see this.

yeah

Definitely.

I think we need to differentiate between HIGH quality and popular content in order for the platform to grow... It could be in danger of turning into a 'trash-post' ethos where we all 'suck-up' to the Whales.
Of course the big question for content is define quality!One Account - One Vote sounds good to me!
Maybe there should be Oralce Witnessess too? The problem is that there then becomes too much human intervention for it to become efficient.

It been 2 yr since steemit launched. Being totally out of different and beneficial platform to it user. Steemit still not got that man stream attention. What are your plans to make it big.

If I got you right, voting based on individuality could make some big boys power down, except there is a balancing measure to assure their power/influence is not much altered. We must remember that those with higher stakes have actually invested much in time, effort and money in the development of Steemit.
They deserve some sort of respect to reflect their stakes, I believe.
When the new Steemian comes in, his contributions will also grow his stakes. I think the Steemian's reputation, as evaluated of his/her useful content and consistency, should be a determinant factor in determining his/her voting power.

@ned, this is all well and good. I need a payment gateway or point of sale for my website so people can buy stuff from me.

How are SMT's going to fullfil this utility?

A post to advertise a post you already did. I have to say, I am pretty confused. I felt when I noticed you posting about kito diet last week that perhaps you finally know what you are going to do with reputation, and that is why you are suddenly posting as if you are a blogger rather than a CEO. And now I have looked to see that in the past month or two you have just been doing really irrelevant, nothing-to-them posts.

Now, of course you are allowed to do this. But, I am confused, because it is not what you used to do. What is even weirder, is that your posts do not have high payouts beneath the strikethrough, so it does not even appear that this could be to do with the acquisition of a higher rep.

I don't really know what's going on, but my intuition is awfully reliable, and it tells me something is.

There is a 99.9% chance you will not tell me, but it will be a 100% chance you will not if I do not ask. So, can you tell me, who or what is pressuring you into posting more frequently? and to what end?

make it seem like there is no sell off

Perhaps.. But surely no one would believe that could work. But I wouldn't call it a sell off per se, for the intention is obviously to buy back low. I too know how high this will be heading in august/September period, and if I had any STEEM, and especially if I had a lot of STEEM, and especially if other whales in my network were getting far too powerful far too quickly, I might be inclined to do the same.

your reasoning is flawed

it is definitely a sell off and has been happening continuously through multiple accounts for the past year at least suppressing price as everyone else was convinced how good it was to power up so the whales could sell.

why would steem rise again with no user retention and a terrible standard for content?

you realize there are 100's of competitors to steem with far better models.

one thing is for sure the power down hurts everyone who remains powered up as in a POS system the total amount staked dictates reward fund

current reward pool 748,374 Steem

was around 755k last week

I see that the problem is you believe the markets are controlled by supply and demand. From my perspective, they're not. They're controlled by bots, and based on my observation, I would go as far to say a machine learning algorithm with an army of bots and unlimited funds at its disposal, and a keen interest in getting better at making profits- though I suspect that is not the primary agenda.

Anyway, I suspect that many of the large stake holders would have studied the markets close enough to also know this, and so they will be looking to sell high and buy back low. If they intend to sell at the end of summer, when it personally looks to me that things will be heading pretty high, then it would have made sense to start powering down by now.

Steemit has become pretty impossible to earn on unless you pay for your votes, which is quickly ruining this place, but I don't think it matters that much at all. IT will still get pumped like every other coin, even if a better competitor comes along. But for now, I didn't know there was one. I have used akasha but it is so slow because it is on Ethereum that I lack the patience- though I will confess that Steemit is also starting to get a bit slow.

Anyway, you shouldn't misunderstand me. I am not defending anyone's actions, only speculating on them and empathizing with the conceptualized motive. This is just my understanding of why whales are currently powering down, whether it be right or wrong it's good enough for me because I don't think their selling off will have much of an effect on the market anyway.

popular misconception based on the understanding of what bots are,how trading works and the Fallacy of the single cause

> The fallacy of the single cause, also known as complex cause, causal oversimplification, causal reductionism, and reduction fallacy,is a fallacy of questionable cause that occurs when it is assumed that there is a single, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes.

bots are algorithms and most traders use bots

there are 100's of thousands of traders all doing different things the fact a lot of them converge to form the market prices only displays the inexperience of the majority and that most are following the same indicators/strategies .

on steemit being impossible to earn, reward fund was over 1 million steem in December now is more than 30% lower with more accounts farming and very few investors how can you make more with less total pay and more competition.

Value of vote in terms of steem generated is dictated by total amount staked as in vests per vote not $.

What makes you think price recovery would happen by the end of the summer?

also maybe you should look at @alpha account always been selling steem and yes it effects the price as there are no new investors steemit incs sell off only suppress price

looks to me price will go to $3500 at least before rebound.

You clearly live with a scarcity mentality.

"there are 100's of competitors to steem with far better models." Hahahaha. Please name 1.

> You clearly live with a scarcity mentality.

You clearly are an idiot

here is one to start obsoletes dlive

https://tatatu.com/

Haha you are funny. You send a link to something that hasn't even been launched yet.

Raised $575 million selling 50% of tokens in private sale,

so where is joke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwolfson/2018/05/07/film-industry-looks-towards-cryptocurrency-to-combat-piracy-by-rewarding-users-to-watch-free-content/2/#5846f1362472

But you talk about things that hasn't been launched even. Which means it's not even a competitor yet. Steemit is 2 years ahead of any competitor.

steem is still in beta so within 3 weeks they will be equal in that sense except for quality which nobody can argue is the most important thing the masses want

is why so many people join steem

believing the whitepaper

shocked disappointed and disgusted most leave never to return

You are ignorant. More people are joining everyday. Real content creators. What you seem to miss is that adoption takes years. What you also seem to miss is that Steem Blockchain has been tested for 2 years as well as the community. They have learned so much during that time. A community takes time to develop. You attract what you are. You seem to attract negativity. I don't see that stuff since I'm attracting positive things and focusing on thriving in life.

i agree more people join everyday but active users stays the same and of those "active users" how many are bots 50%+

there may be content creators here but steem doesn't work to reward content of high value, steem only works to reward steemit inc and crew same as it did in the beginning same as it will in the end.

you need a bit of realism and to look at facts objectively

DTube and DLive are working and giving out tons of value daily to content creators. So it's working. Currently video is mainly the high value that is being created on the Blockchain. @taskmaster4450 is another good example of a writer that gets rewarded daily well. So the system works. People get rewarded when they create quality content. If you don't get rewarded then that means your content is not good enough and that you don't network enough or create leverage for yourself.

because something works and pays some people doesn't mean anything

Users dont get rewarded on steem for creating quality content.

they get rewarded for licking ass supporting the status quo and for repeating what ever the current false narrative is to support the system

have you ever heard of bitconnect paid many people for a long time

That's wrong. There are people on both sides on Steemit. Both tries to work towards a better future. People do get rewarded for quality content. It's also up to you to network with people that has stake. You have many with high moral standards here.

Create 100x in value and expect 1x in return. You will be fine. Since people are kind and generous.

no you are mistaken while the may be some good most are not

problem is from the top down only users who gained high positions were statusquoers or exploiters from the early days and up to before they changed the rules to make sure no content creators made too much from widespread support

Do you think @nonameslefttouse is an exploiter? Please open your eyes and follow cool people. You have this weird way of looking at people if you mostly see evil in others then you are doing something wrong. Since most humans are kind and very normal. You just need to encourage them.

ok you found quality creator but jokes on you i already follow them

So what's the problem? You follow quality creators and get quality content. System works

not for mainstream use

nobody who uses the internet wants to take time to search through anything is the point of instant connection is not to waste time sifting through garbage

The mainstream on Facebook follow their friends. So you are wrong there. Follow quality content and you will become better at finding your quality that you want.

haven't used facebook in years

lets take a content site how about medium

how long does it take to find quality content on medium?

You are doing something seriously wrong if you have a problem finding quality content in the modern age. My Kindle app has over 200+ books with quality. How much more content do you need? Is it really that hard to open up the Kindle app and type anything in search and find good stuff? No it's not hard. It's easier than ever before.

If you want quality to reach your eyes magically no we don't have that technology at the moment but maybe in the future with AI. You have to look stuff up yourself. Everyone has a different taste.

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you said it perfect

> You are doing something seriously wrong if you have a problem finding quality content in the modern age.

sums up the value of content publishing on steem

You need to curate content if you want something specific. Are you doing this? Clearly not. Content takes time to develop since it needs human curators and supporters. This takes years!

so steem will go mainstream because everyone wants to take the time to curate

lol it takes years

i was a chef for years and we had a saying

"If its shit at the start it'll be shit in the middle and it'll be shit in the end"

The underlying Technology Blockchain and Tokens is what will go mainstream. Because it's faster and superior in terms of value exchanges. This is not shit. The Blockchain is superior to any other system we have had in the past.

its not "The blockchain" its "A blockchain"

blockcahins aren't connected

they are independent networks

faster what? doesn't hold value faster means nothing

please get a clue

You can transfer value in 3 seconds. The Blockchain is just a fancy way of referring to all chains in an elegant way. Like the Lord.

if it doesn't hold value doesn't matter

no, shitcoin projects like to refer to all cryptos as the blockchain to try and draw attention from bitcoin and say "look we are like bitcoin, we have a blockchain too"

pity for shitcoins bitcoin has far superior technologies behind it than a database

also pity they cant integrate with most

also pity a blockchain is the worst type of database and costs 1000 times more than using a standard server

so pity

This comment is really badly written and confusing. You also don't seem to even be able to use capital start letter. Whatever. You seem to be attracted to negativity and scarcity.

yes my spelling and grammar is so difficult to understand

i suppose whatever steem shill has been feeding you with the shite your repeating to me has a very high level of elocution is why your so convinced even against the facts

You are trying to make the world into something very Black and White. Either it's disaster or it's amazing for you. Both are wrong. The world is more complex than that. You are looking at stuff from a 1 dimensional perspective.

here is one obsoletes steem blogging

https://www.minds.com/

0.037 value of the Mind Token? Hahahaha. Can you cash it out?

still on testnet
only setting up past few months announced in march i think

most important thing with minds is it will be owned completely by the community and fully decentralized

minds has over million "users" and very high quality content creators

I'm sure competitors will come. But we are entering a world of abundance so the idea of competition is kinda going away. But you said 100s of competitors. Minds is the only platform that is close to something like Steemit.

competitors are here, now

i only named the ones im sure will replace the main points steem is "marketed" for

who needs a platform?

what is wrong with an app for each?

makes more sense than trying to do everything half-arsed and being left with a pile of shit after whos only use is as a front end for staking

No competitor has a 100% working system right now. So you are wrong with that statement. The Steem Blockchain system works. This is proof of Brain. This means you have to be creative to get more Tokens and create real value.

steem is in beta
tatatu is in beta
minds is in beta
socaill is in beta

which will be first out of beta with an MVP ?

Any bets ?

also your not here long enough to know that steem cant handle the load when its busy and with current prices i doubt witness can afford to scale nodes if adoption did happen im pretty sure currently is pushing

proof of brain would mean smart people and top quality gets rewarded as you can see by trending pages and top posts in most tags this is false

Your flaw is that you look at trending. Don't you follow cool people and build up connections? Then that is your problem. Steemit has a full working product right now and an economy that works. You can cash out and cash in. None of the others you listed have that at the moment.

trending shows the best quality content by steems standards

any you cant just cash out is 3 months power down steem was 3 times the price 3 months ago nearly 10 times the price 8 months

So what? If people could cash out instantly then you would have no stable platform. No the trending doesn't show best quality. It shows what has been upvoted the most. 10 times down so what? This is crypto. It can go 1000x down and then 1000x back up.

stable platform ? where?!

ponder this

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@leongkhan/reward-pool-analysis-why-your-rewards-are-dropping-and-when-it-may-turn-around

using the defense that is is crypto can go to 0 and back is idiotic

That graph tells me nothing. Sitting and looking at graphs all day is a waste of time. Create content if you want to be a success on Steemit.

that graph shows the reward pool at 1.8 million steem last year

graphs are not a waste of time

you have a lot to learn pity your so ignorant to the facts, will be hard for you

here is another graph to ponder

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/444265333394505740/446431550490411018/bitfinex-btcusd-May-16-2018-23-55-1.png?width=1026&height=452

So what? It's called competition and be early in.

no its not called competition

you see in a POS system the total amount powered up dictates total staking rewards over time this would increase with users investors if growth was happening and whales werent powering down

steem whales were taking turns up to that point then they just withdrew lots and dropped price

now steemitinc whales will do the same

so now is 5 times the users with half the rewards

Some power down. So what. People can do what they want. Welcome to a Blockchain freedom system.

well steemitincs Steem was all exploited from the system and they've used new users to work promote steemit and stay powered up with promises of upgrades SMTs communities etc and then they power down themselves to sell

9 million steem sold by them since December, about $15- $20MILUSD you'd think that would see development,

also its not the first time the steem power gained by them was brought up as an issue it was claimed that it was a marketing budget

Your flaw is that you think that just because you hold money magical stuff will happen the next week. Money people have. But creating stuff and build something still takes time. Can Microsoft build best OS because they have billions? Can they just click a button and create something new? No the OS still sucks. So it has nothing to do with money.

the next week ???!!!

is years, never going to happen empty promises to cash out

you must be very new to crypto to be so naive there are scams everywhere many have fallen much bigger than steem

many have had great success on steem freely

Yet you are still here. Haha.

yeah just finished powering down 17 sp powered up

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here is one obsoletes steem commerce

i say this but really it does everything and integrates with mainstream sites but is only launching beta so will leave it at the main part

https://sociall.io/

"Join the closed Beta" Hahaha. You gotta try harder than that. You speak about competitors and then send links to stuff that's not even out yet hahahaha.

lol you dont even know what nexus is?

I forgot how steemit users become perpetual newbs listening to the echochamber of shite here

Are you talking about something else now? You linked to something called sociall not nexus

Nexus is the group with many plans for crypto projects most important being a satellite mesh network for a decentralized internet

Instead of making a catch-all they've broken down projects into specialized groups to achieve the highest quality products and services
catch-alls are generally bland and fizzle out without heavy funding

Here is the their site

https://nexusearth.com

Yeah more talk. Do the talk game is easy. Just start a website and write a whitepaper and do some 3D photos. Steemit is a working platform right now. Nothing else on the market is close to Steemit right now.

how is steem working?

not how is said in the whitepaper, is a fraud if using that as a metric.

If you mean because steem exists it is working then yes i agree

do some research on those companies you'll see

all have partnerships with top companies in those markets in the world, Nexus probaly being the most important since they have connections throughout crypto.

who does steem have partnership with?

What is it that's not working according to you? I see people earning more.

how can you see people earning more?

Reward pool is decreasing since late last year due to whales powering down and steemit inc selloff so what you say you see is false everybody's vote is worth less vests.

i see you only joined in January so you have a lot to learn of how steem really works

I don't live with a scarcity mentality and entitled mindset like you do. I been a content creator since 2007 on YouTube. If you don't understand the game then let me break it down to you. You give 100x and expect 1x in return. That's the game. That's how it will always work. And the Steem Blockchain is 10x easier to get value from than for example YouTube.

what are you talking about? content creation?

do you think rewards on steem are equal to quality if so please show me anything from trending to support this

i agree getting rewards from the steem blockchain is simple doesn't make it based on content or the quailty

Why are you looking at the trending? The trending is a marketplace at the moment. If you want to see quality then you need to follow cool people. Easy as that.

so steem doesn't work for the public

Steem works for everyone that do what they should. Work hard and smart.

Hello @Ned, I would appreciate it if you could delegate some SP to me, or transfer some Steem to me. I want to start #SteemCharity, to help raise funds for the less privileged and foster homes. I'd be so glad if you woud grant me this request.

I am Pricasso most wonderful artist, today Pricasso would like to thank you the only and best way Pricasso knows how, the most magical artwork here in your dedication..

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As well as the blog here in your honor ..https://steemit.com/artzone/@pricasso/my-ode-to-ned

Be blessed

Yours Always
Pricasso

Came here for the memes, was not disappointed.

Do you still check on your chat messages from time to time?
I urgently need an answer since Steemit's new terms and conditions.

Congratulations @ned!
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hiii @ned, i watched your video and found that every thing is clear and your your explanation is really awesome. i became fan of you.
But i don't know much about oracle programming will you help me in programming??
and plzz follow and resteemit on my posts/blogs. i will feel thankful of you.......

Yes i did.

Hey Ned ,

Because the bitcoin going down , and we as an application doing to well and growing up ,

As a business you need out source ,

Just an idea , as an ex business man that bankrupted ,
For you guys to earn more money , and keep on with this great platform ,

Right now you got regular application , that free ,

And one application with money entrance,

Make also 1 more platform that call v.I.p entrance that will cost a lot more , meaning the rich people wanna get inside , they can pay .
You decide about there benefits ,

Even I myself hate money , I know what business like that need .

Good luck ,

I'm from the Israeli community , wishing you all the luck needed ,

Don't listen to no one ,
And keep on doing what you need to do mate .

Your doing a great job .

Peace ,love ,and good business ,

Saar.

My accound owner or active password forget me my steem power is not transfer in any account plzz give solution

Hello @ned I found a bug on steemit.com it concerns logging out and back into with another account. Where can I report it?

If great content is of value to the platform, I'm surprised that Steem Inc is not giving more support to curation projects like @travelfeed @steemitworldmap etc.

Im very very excited about the SMT's, this will be a huge improvement for the Steem Blockchain and for Steemit! Thanks for sharing this post on your blog here too @ned. 👏👍

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Nice post, I am bull on this info!!

Yeah we all saw the post Ned. hehe..
Any person that has been here more then 2 weeks knows at least something about SMTs...
Anyways... Im just glad you decided to start posting a bit more frequently.
Be a guy Ned, just be a Steemian on Steem...
People love when Devs play their own games. ;)

I hadn't seen the SMTs post yet, thanks for highlighting it. I also think the video embed function is fantastic - feels a lot more natural than being sent to another site.

hello @ned, am new to steemit so I really have a lot to learn, but going through your posts I saw that you're a teacher, and I observed that your upvotes do not yield dollars and when I see some dollars, it's ruled out. Please can you explain to me why the dollars is ruled out and why other posts reads 0$ with a lot of upvotes. Thanks

@whizart ~ At the time of creating this blog post, @ned chose the option to 'decline payment' for the post. That's why you see $0 and amounts lined out.

OK sir @bananamemos

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Great post! from my perspective definately steps/thoughts in the right direction. Keep pulling those all nighters and you'll get there.

Remember to think The enemy of a good idea is a great idea!

Thanks for all the hard work

yes but finally commenting. I believe value is held by the people who hold it up. Step aboard or get off the pier and let those that believe choose the path. Make ways my friends not delays.

Is that so?
"superlinear": f = a*x^y, y >= 2, but y can be a real number.

I think, SMTs are very important. But do not lose focus on Steemit, Steem, and Steem Dollar. We trust you and the team @ned. We hope the situation will improve as much as ever.

Invest in the process and focus on getting it RIGHT. The RESULTS will eventually follow because a GOAL is a CONSEQUENCE of a PROCESS and NOT Vice-Versa.

Ned I appreciate you good job

Usually in my country, an oracle is a person you go to for spiritual advice. The oracle answers you back after consulting the ancestors.

The same for our community, @thecappedvillain. When we need guidance, we go to the BanOracle.
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Hey dear whales. I am new steemer. I need your suggestion. How can i improve my blog page and how can i increase my earnings?

I loved this, @ned ;)

Anyway @ned can be voted off the board due to a lack of confidence from us stake holders.

Being very new to this whole crypto-block chain thing, I really appreciated a glimpse into some of the remedies that might be coming soon, @ned. It seems as if one vote per account would be a more effective way to award creators and community-minded folks.

I'd also like to suggest a differentiation between a vote that pays (more like a TIP) and a vote that's a "like" button. This would be especially useful in long comment volleys where you might want to acknowledge the person's response, but not use up all of your voting power.

Steem on!
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