Hi Steemit,
I am a programmer with 30 years experience. I have been programming windows before windows came out and browsing before the big browsers came out. I am a bit late to realize what is coming next but I did now and I am 100% ready to take on the blockchain.
The blockchain is a very good thing, it is decentralised meaning no government or corporate can stop it, it is the anarchistic dream.
We have started this decentralised power with torrents, nobody can stop us sharing what we want as it is between you and me and many individuals. Then there was bitcoin, a currency based on this blockchain. It is our currency, no central bank that will just print more notes and put our money in their pockets
I would never have thought that we developers would be able to change the world for the good but it is happening. They would have to stop the internet to stop what is coming but even for this scenario solutions are ready.
What is coming now, is mind-blowing. We are entering an era where you and me are the players. We are able to leave the big financial powers in their underwear.
Today, as a programmer, I have decided to go 100% for the Steem blockchain. I looked into the different existing blockchains and will tell you “quickly” why I am choosing Steem.
Speed
Existing blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum are turtles compared to the blockchains of Dan (Steem, BitShares, EOS)
Cost of Transaction
The big promise of bitcoin was to be able to send money worldwide with a very tiny cost. Today, bitcoin price is way too high and soon transaction costs will be similar to Visa and the likes.
I couldn’t believe what I saw when somebody showcased me the Steemit platform
YOU CAN SEND MONEY FOR FREE
Less hyped and big support
Steemit lost most of his investors in the early years due to the 100% inflation rate. I am very happy with that because it is possible to buy ourselves some Steem Power before investors will rediscover this most amazing platform and blow the price up.
Steemit is in my eyes the only blockchain that is used for what the blockchain is all about, the daily usage is extremely high and not because of wild hyped investor transactions that happen with all the other altcoins.
There is technically a beautiful support visible with Steem, it looks like many Steemians will always jump on the wagon when the price comes closer to 1 USD. These bottom support points are rising, that is a very good sign.
Future Vision
Steemit has all the ingredients to become a major success. The most important problem I see is a classic economical problem, the money is flowing out. Many Steemians are transforming their gained Steem dollars to Bitcoin and cash it out.
If they would only see this and transform their winnings to Steem Power, the value of Steem would shoot up like a rocket and the whole community would benefit.
Another approach is to build out the apps around Steemit. A marketplace is already there but we should be able to send each other Steem for every possible idea that involves payment so that we don’t have to go into Bitcoin or Fiat currencies.
I hope I can help with this but it looks like I have to learn Python to do this. I will start today.
To be continued…
GentleSoul
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Welcome to Steem @gentlesoul I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Welcome, always good to have more programmers on board. What languages do you program in?
I have been programming in Omnis my whole life. It is a crossware solution working on all platforms (win, mac, linux) with all major databases (mysql, sql server, oracle,...), a very good language to make nice looking stuff very quickly, also very fast and nice to do web apps but not very scalable.
I don't consider myself very language-bound, i am quite attracted to python now, are you programming blockchain? Warning: If you say yes, i will have some questions :-)
I'm not programming blockchain. I'm a (front-end) web developer, and I have been working on some apps that get their data from steemit, but all data is simply fetched from the public API's. No real blockchain technology involved there, just the results of it.
If you ever have any javascript questions let me know though :P
Hey @pilcrow, does that mean i can access steemit data from Javascript? That would be cool to make some little project immediately...
Yes, that's right. You can use SteemJS to fetch and post data, it's not a very practical API and badly documented, but there's some articles out there that can help you out. I wrote some tutorials for it, but those by @jfollas are the best.
Also the #steemjs and #dev channels on steemit.chat can be very helpful.
Welcome to Steemit!
Hello and Welcome! Nice to meet you! Thanks for join
Hi!! Nice to see people like you around. A developer over here - there are already many developing groups for steemit, I am pretty sure you will easily find more around. They are mostly in chat with Discord
Ok, thank you for the information, will have a look there!
Welcome to Steemit @gentlesoul, hope you master python fast and make us more beautiful apps or get the Steemit experience better
Oops, thank you for the upvote @bubke, hope i can fullfill the expectations
Hey denis,
welcome here into this wonderful community.
We are glad that you join us.
May this platform be a big success for you.
I am excited to see your useful apps.
Good to meet you @gentlesoul.
Good to meet you too @bigpanda lovely name, i am very happy to get some reactions on my first post, didn't expect that, great start, thanks!
Welcome dude. Follow me @codero . I like posting programming articles.
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STOPWelcome aboard from another old had that has been at the code face just as long :)
Ha, you must be as old as your reputation then :-)
I got quite some response on my first post contrary to what people told me, nice, thanks! I am just following everybody commenting, i guess that's ok, my feed is quite empty if not :-)
lol, almost. Cross the 50 boundary later in the year. Started coding on ZX81 and Commodore Pet as a kid and never looked back :)
Yep, follow people. It is easy to unfollow if they produce a lot of noise lol
Takes a little while to find you feet here and initially posts might not get much voting. You either have to post at the right time or have a follower base but keep plugging away and things pick up.
Welcome! So much programming man power gathering on steemit. That's really awesome! What kind of projects did you work on before the blockchain enlightenment? :)
Hi @mkt, a 3 letter name, you must have been in the first league :-) I have been 100% in financial software. Making good bucks. Created no 1 accounting package in my country. Slowly redrawing now and looking for new challenges and fun, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too. Hope you like this new experience here in steemit as much as I do. :)
Good writeup! You are a new member so I thought I'd say hi and welcome you. Have an upvote and never stop posting!
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