What is life like for @aggroed doing Steem full time now? In this second part of the interview, we talk cryptocurrency revolution, using bidding bots on Steem, @minnowsupport project, success on Steem via helping others, and tips for new authors/witnesses!
In our previous post which is part #1 of this interview we discussed @aggroed's transition out of the corporate world into doing Steem full time, earning as an author on Steemit, serving as a witness, and our purpose for growing Steem together in peace, abundance and liberty, alongside @minnowsupport and http://minnowsupportproject.org.
This blog post is the second part of the interview and you may watch the video at the end of it if you wish.
Jerry Banfield's Vision for Steem
What I think Steem might actually help us a lot with, is show us more accurately the world we are in whereas things like Facebook and Google, we kind of have this inaccurate view of the world. We think things are one way, but it really works differently behind the scenes.
We have proof of that because almost no one at Google or Facebook ever wants to talk about how the inner workings of things like demonetization or banning, and censorship work, and the money flow is not obvious to the average user either where an advertiser drops in millions of dollars, you can see the ads, but you can't see how much money is moved.
What I like on Steem, and it's one of the things that aggravated my wife about Steem, is you can see how all these money transactions are working and it's right out in the open, which then people can get really angry and upset with it, and actually see it because it's out in the open.
It's not clear to the average user who is trying to eat food and diet, how the government's health regulations are based on huge amounts of money by certain types of food producers, and then those are in the official recommendations regardless of whatever the data shows that the food is actually good for you, that doesn't matter. When you pay enough money, you can get it on the table and the official recommendations.
I like on Steem that we can see exactly where the wealth is and if we don't like it we have a place we can talk about it.
Aggroed:
Yes, Steem is an amazing place. The only thing that made me hesitate to quit my gig was my wife and my dad being a little nervous about it, but otherwise, I'm jumping in with two feet.
I want to leave that entire world behind. I just think it's really important not to give it any of my attention. I don't want to give it any of my money, any of my attention, any of my force, and part of being able to do that is if there are no alternative and I just say, "I'm going to stop using the US dollar," then what?
How do I eat?
How do I get money?
How do I do things?
How do I have commerce?
I know people that couch surf forever, but that's not really realistic when you are already married and have two kids. Steem is a remarkable thing for me because it's not a hundred percent there. I still convert some money out to dollars and I still pay down my house mortgage and things, but eventually I think that we will get strong enough where the next step is that the banks will just start accepting cryptocurrencies as currencies rather than the stupid property thing, but they will recognize that it's a currency and they will take them to pay down debts.
The main thing that's cropping up in all these nation states is basically two things, a military and a printing press, and because the cryptocurrencies are such stronger currencies, so much better currencies where all the people that are involved with them without actually having removed the US dollar, printing press, we effectively do that because people aren't going to want to hold that.
You have to be insane!
If you are sitting on a million dollars, you have to be insane not to put that into a crypto.
That is freaking printing 160 million dollars a day. That's an enormous amount of inflation and it's completely unsustainable. We have doubled the amount of currency in circulation since 2008 and it's absurd. If you want to know what the shittiest investment you can make is, just hold a US dollar. It's not even stable, the value of that keeps going down.
Whereas all these cryptocurrencies not only are you getting at least a stable value, except in the cases where the chain dies or there's some technological threat, but outside of that existential threat of, "Will the chain even exists," those things are just worth so much more because they are either deflationary or practically deflationary, and they work better.
They go across these fiat imaginary lines that they keep drawing on maps and it's a much more liberated and private view that there's just infinitely more to like about them and as a consequence everybody that's holding these highly inflated pieces of shit fiat paper have every piece of incentive to get rid of them to move into crypto.
For a part of those reasons I just keep seeing that the crypto space is not going to grow, I think it is going to exponentially explode as more people realize just how freaking good it is here.
You have governments that are banning cash and that's miserable. Try to ban Bitcoin in those countries, see how that goes, and you have anonymous transactions where anybody can hop on from anywhere in the web. We can just circumvent any of the stupid rules that men with guns want to create for us.
That's what I'm about. That's what I'm trying to do.
I think most of part of what we like, or saw some overlap on, is a worker program, and I have mixed feelings about it. I don't want to force people to pay a worker program because that starts feeling like taxation. I do think that there is an aspect where every single post that's out here is effectively a worker program. We already have a worker program that's infinitely large, but I do think that trying to find a way to funnel money to doing projects that are very specific to help the ecosystem grow is good for the Steem ecosystem.
I haven't sent out another post to really push this or do something because there were a number of people that came back to me and said, "Well, what if I don't want to do that? What if I don't want my money going to those projects? It starts feeling like taxes."
There are parts of this that I like and there are parts that make me nervous, but finding ways to get funding and eyeballs on good projects, I do think is something that you had originally talked about that made me think, "Alright, I'll give this guy more of a chance."
But I also think that there are parts of it that even after I've supported it, I have to look back and say, "Alright, well, I can see what some of these detractors are saying."
It feels like there are some elements of taxation to a worker program that maybe they don't want to support that I don't know how I feel about that. It makes me less gung-ho about it entirely.
Jerry Banfield:
I'm grateful with these voting bots that we have found a way to use the votes from voting bots to essentially make a budget funding system for workers that then is completely optional. If you don't use the voting bot or if you don't delegate to the voting bot, then you don't have to participate in it.
I've launched the voting bot and the funding system for the budget proposal, so I've already paid out a few worker proposals and funded some more.
As for Steem, I'm planning contests that will be pretty huge with that soon too. I'm grateful on Steem we have got room to innovate things like this today that you can do just by supporting them directly without having to make everyone participate in it.
Aggroed:
Yes, I do think that was a good solution.
I co-own that Steem Bot Tracker website. I run two bid bots and I used them all the freaking time. I think that they are great equalizers and I think they are unprecedented opportunities for marketing.
I've been in higher Ed, and higher Ed has to do enormous amounts of marketing, and those professors get so saturated. In all of those cases, I've had to pay money to market and I never got any of that money directly back.
Here it's entirely unique in that I am able to use a bid bot to go market my post, and then at the end of the week they say, "Okay, here's your money back," and that's astounding for marketing. There's nothing like that anywhere else on the planet that I know of that exists, but that's how bid bots function.
Maybe one day they will get so popular that we are no longer talking about, "Well, you get all your money back," but until then, this is an unprecedented opportunity to both market your content, typically not make money and oftentimes making a return.
My best post using a bid bot, I put a 30 SBD bid down and I think it was through @appreciator and it doubled. That's remarkable, right?
I think it was $300 at the time.
Here's $300, great!
Let me market your content.
All right. Well, we marketed your content, here's $600 back.
Where else does that exist?
I know that some bid bots make people frustrated or they feel like they skew the reward system or something, but I think that they are a great equalizer and in part what we want is whales having the ability to invest in the platform without simply upvoting shit comments that they are making on their own walls.
This presents a fantastic opportunity so that a whale can say, “I want to invest here, but I don't want to post here and make so much money that a post on here isn't even worth my time, but I want to be able to get some passive investment for this voting power thing that you're giving me.”
I think that bid bots make a great investment and that they are useful for the platform. I think sometimes they are abused, but as long as good people are using them, it makes it so that it's much harder for shit posters to use them.
I don't know exactly what our topic is here.
Again, this is part of the Steem ecosystem and creating abundance.
A bid bot actually creates abundance for basically everybody involved. It's creating it for the whale and it's creating it for the user.
Maybe it causes some amount of pain to the reward pool in general for everybody, but again vote-buying existed before these things already existed. It just happened privately in direct messages.
Now, it's this open transparent thing that anybody can participate in. I think that's better and ultimately I think that the amount of benefit provided by providing a marketing service to everybody and an investment opportunity for whales is driving more growth than the cost that it is to take some of the money out of the pool because that money could have been spent anyways.
They could just be spending that furthering themselves and crap content. Instead, they're doing this thing that actually has some benefits for the community. As far as I'm concerned they are helpful and I do think that the project to use Jerry Banfield, the @jerrybanfield account, as a worker service is good.
That's part of why I look forward to it and actually use the @jerrybanfield account, because I do think that having a voluntary worker program is helpful.
I guess overall what I've recognized is that Steem is a remarkable opportunity to go spread the values of peace, abundance and liberty.
I've been able to make an enormous amount of money doing that. I've been able to delegate and give away an enormous amount of money without it really costing anything. I've lost some opportunity cost, but I've been able to go help literally thousands of people.
If you look at the @minnowsupport account, it will show you that there's like a hundred and ten or a hundred and twenty thousand comments around now, and that's because we voted on a hundred and ten thousand posts by probably fifty, sixty or seventy thousand different people.
So to that end, I feel like the work that I'm doing is not only spreading this message and helping this place grow, but we are making economic differences for the people all over the world and I'm directly participating in that.
I don't know, if you like this message I would say, "Please come delegate to the @minnowsupport bot, because we are helping a lot of people and that's one of most direct ways that I think that you can help, especially the brand-new members on this platform to start to find some success here and start to make some rewards."
There are a lot of people that use the @minnowsupport account as the initial jumping-off point. I think people eventually sort of walk away from it and say okay I don't need to use this anymore, but that's actually a sign of success and health not of, it doesn't matter.
It's more like, "Alright I've grown out of needing this," and that's exactly what we are trying to do, to get new users to the point where they don't quite need that service, but now they have more of a community around them, more support, more followers, more upvotes and a more sustainable income when they are posting.
Jerry Banfield:
Hundreds of thousands of votes on posts, it's incredible. I just saw an article that says basically in many countries you only need a couple of dollars a day, that's the poverty line. You can survive off of just a couple of dollars a day.
Then, when we have got the Minnow Support Project as a part of everything else we have on Steem, I feel like it's very realistic to expect, and you mention seven cents on a few posts, that with continued contributions to Steem an author could easily expect to earn at least two dollars a day every single day.
Aggroed:
On like two posts, yes, especially with a high SBD.
The other debate that I've been able to partake in a lot is, what should we do with the SBD?
My response is, help it be as high as possible because this is good for the platform. Steem will reward the investment holders, but SBD is rewarding all of the active users, and so having a high SBD has helped explode the platform, but it also helps in that very situation where you have a lot of third worlders that are getting a $1 post.
That $1 post has 0.4 SBD on it and that 0.4 SBD is now worth $4. That one post that they are making might not have a ton of rewards for an American, but now it starts looking like a daily income. Now, it starts looking like you are doing well and that's remarkable.
I think we help with that because the Minnow Support Project can put, I don't know, right now even at low VP, we are still able to put like $10 on a post.
I don't know what our 1% vote is doing. It's been a while since I've actively been using it because I haven't needed it, but even if we are at 25 cents or something, that ends up being quite a bit of money, especially when we are doing that a thousand times a day.
We are distributing wealth to the users all over the world and especially those that either need it the most because they are the most impoverished, or need it the most because they are just beginning their journey on Steem and they need that small amount of income to increase their reputation, to make some friends, to get at least a little post value out of this or something so that they don't feel so entirely lost.
That's what we are doing and so far it's working out pretty well.
Jerry Banfield:
Thank you very much @aggroed because I see on a lot of your posts you have used the voting bot of mine, and if we look at Steem World, you can see that you have made $35,000 worth of Steem Backed Dollars and Steem, the current price being in the last 30 days.
It says you joined in August 2016, that must have seemed like a complete fantasy or ridiculous that within a year and a half you could be making more money than most people get in half a year or a year of work.
Aggroed:
That money is certainly inflated because I use bid bots all the time. Again, I think using a bid bot is good. Since I delegate all my Steem Power, I feel like I want to give back to the people that are voting for my posts, so I like to vote out. I like to use a bid bot after a lot of people have voted and that's a way that I can sort of hit them with curation rewards for having been paying attention to my post.
Every now and then, I want to go send one up into "Trending," so lots of eyes get on it. I did that for the, "Hey, why don't we stop for a second and thank Steemit for helping us get up to $8 Steem."
I guess it was even $9 or something. What I'm saying is, don't look at that number and be like, "Wow. Aggie is actually making all of that."
That number is at least half-inflated by bots because I used them very frequently to large amounts in part to reward people and part to stop shit posters, part because it's fun and sometimes because it's rewarding.
Like I said my best one yet, was a 30 SBD vote that ended up turning into a 60 SBD vote.
Who knows?
Maybe I will catch some more of those, I use them quite a bit, but I am not making 35,000 SBD per year. That number might be how much I earn entirely, but it's not what I'm actually making from doing this.
Jerry Banfield:
Yes, that's just the raw number. You have got 5,000 Steem Dollars in the last 30 days 1,900 plus Steem Power from author rewards. That doesn't include your costs essentially that you have probably put thousands of Steem Dollars through the voting bots in order to turn those Steem Dollars.
Aggroed:
That's correct.
Jerry Banfield:
Including funding projects like the worker proposal system I have and including any other projects that are funded through voting bots as well.
Aggroed:
Yes, I have two of them.
One of my voting bots is @lovejuice and it allows me to go pay brand new authors $20 worth of Steem or SBD to go author with us.
That's another way because I have a steady income from that I can go give it back to the community and that's pretty rewarding. I've been doing that and that's one of the projects that I think I can use bid bots to help, and then the other one is @msp-bidbot and that one is neat because anybody can delegate to it and they can start getting rewards from it.
So the people that are brand-new, minnows that have been on the platform a bit, maybe they have to step back for a month or two, or maybe they don't like posting, but they like reading, but somehow they have some or they have invested a bit, but at only a thousand Steem or something, it's not really worth running your own bid bot, so here's a way that people can go sort of delegate to this thing and get small returns back for it.
Five percent of it will go to @minnowsupport, and that's a way we are able to grow the minnow support account a little bit too. It's like one SBD a day or something, but that's a way that we can grow that account, and again use it to go help new minnows and new members of the Steem community, to start to have success here.
Jerry Banfield:
Thank you for explaining about the bots because each of these bots essentially pays out different investors or operators, and I like to choose the bots based on who I want to earn essentially.
It's nice to build a list of them.
The @msp-bidbot gives back and the @lovejuice bot also gives back. So, I know if I promote a post with that, I'm also doing some good.
I noticed you said, you just kind of quickly mentioned it in terms of, giving back feels good.
What I've noticed is that a lot of us underestimate how important that is. We think that making a bunch of money will make us happy, but according to the data once we have got enough to be comfortable, which in the USA is about $70,000 a year, no extra money adds anything to happiness, but doing something that gives back like charity work or funding new authors on Steemit, paying out worker proposals or whatever it is, that can help us greatly increase our happiness much more than just earning money.
Well, no more money after you have got everything to be comfortable, money doesn't buy any more happiness after comfort, but generosity does give a whole lot more happiness.
Aggroed:
Yes, and from that perspective, I'm an incredibly happy person. I don't know if it's every month, but around the holidays I did a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt. I did a Christmas scavenger hunt. I think I'd given away maybe 400 Steem. That was probably around five bucks. I mean, that's a lot of money, that's two thousand dollars that just went out.
But again, this platform gives me lots of Steem, so to me it's just paying it forward and just trying to help. A big part of how all this happened was @kaylinart who resteemed one of my posts talking about how to make a good post mimicking her style, she resteemed me and as a consequence of that my followers grew, and lots of people started paying attention and I thought, "Oh, that's how this whole thing works. All right. Now I get it."
At that time, it was just a resteem, but honestly it had been months and months in the working of building up an audience, and then using her audience to go help me, which at the time cost her nothing, but getting to that took her forever.
But now I realized, "Oh, I can go use all this work that I've put in, I can use to help other people get started," which is why if you look at my wall it's filled with having resteemed other people.
I try to resteem a couple of people every other day or something. Sometimes when I have more time to curate you will see three or four.
When I was doing the "Santa Aggroed" or when I did the "Thanksgiving Resteem" I asked people to resteem me first and maybe they'd resteem me to 60 people or something, and then I'd resteem them later and have that go out to like 10,000 people.
I think stuff like that helps brand new users get started and situated, and actually @ausbitbank was kind enough to go over and follow the people that I had resteemed, to go hit them with some couple dollars worth of votes here and there.
So, between us with this community we have some power to go help new users get started, maybe even stick around and maybe even eventually invest and feel like, "Alright! Well, maybe I can't make a fortune posting, but I can go buy some Steem and watch this currency go moon."
I feel like we have done a lot of good on this platform and I just look forward to doing more. People have said, "Alright, you quit your job. What changes?"
It's like, if the big picture doesn't change, the mission is still to spread the values of peace, abundance and liberty, help grow the Steem ecosystem and help train and retain minnows on the platform, but now there's just new ways and more time to do that through curation, and other things. Like I said, I'm building a studio or trying to build a film studio so that I can do more on the radio, do more by actually doing like a broadcast production that's like a TV or film.
I just see this thing growing and I see it where more people are able to get hit with a message that didn't come from a government speaker or a government agent, but came from people that are woke, thoughtful and willing to talk about, "Hey, you know there's a different way that we can all choose to live. Let me show you how that can be done and if we all decide to do this, then maybe we can finally have nice things again."
Jerry Banfield:
I'm very grateful that you consistently reiterate the mission. I've found that's very helpful to focus on what the big picture is and in that sense maybe you could answer some questions like, how can I be successful on Steemit?
After looking at your account, you have been successful at the things most people might want to try doing: that's publishing as an author, getting followers and top twenty witnesses.
What tips do you have for new authors?
New or just struggling authors or witnesses?
Aggroed:
If you are brand new as an author, then spend most of your time writing really short form posts. Don't be spending five hours at a time, because you don't have enough followers to spread the message, it's likely not going to resonate.
It is as important on this platform to have good content as it is to have a good network. You should be building both your content and your network, and that's part of why I built the Minnow Support Project and have a 7,000 Steemian community.
It's hard to do that directly on Steem just by writing pen pal-style notes, but when you can have a direct conversation or a voice conversation or a video conference, you can do a lot more to make friends, and I think that helps build what you are capable of doing on the system.
Spend less time authoring, spend more time commenting because commenting can catch you votes, but it also gets you followers, and then spend your time working in the Minnow Support Project, other Discords or Telegram, or anything else that you can find where some Steemian's have gathered.
I know there are a couple of Facebook groups, @acidyo runs a Reddit page. Go work with these folks and work in the different communities to find a community that you like, that you fit into, and then I think you need to help other people rather than coming to us and say, "Hey, follow for follow," vote begging, or anything else… the latest joke was "Witness for Witness."
None of that is good.
What you really want are people that believe in you, believe in your content, that think you are a friend and what you have done, the best way to do that is to help other people.
So, think about what skills you have. If you are an artist, make some art. If you are a musician, make some music for somebody and say, "Here's some music. I made it for you."
Because who doesn't like people that show up with gifts and say, "Hey, I'm grateful to be part of this community. I'm looking forward to helping even more. This is what I can think to contribute now."
The people that come to me and say, "Hey Aggie, will you resteem this?"
It's like, "Oh xxx!"
The people that come up and say like, "Hey, here's the way that I think I can help this community."
Well, I will actually pay attention to that. I'm not looking at the follower count at that point.
I'm looking at:
Do I think this person is going to follow through?
Do I think that they have good morals and a good mission?
Do I think that they are good for this ecosystem?
If the answer to those things is yes, then I'm happy to help.
That's what I would say for that.
In terms of being a new witness, the most important thing is that you got to love Steem because ultimately being a witness is hard. It took me months to get anywhere, months and months of work and constant work.
I built the four thousand person organization and I was still like number 60 at one point. It's hard to get noticed. It's hard to build things. It's hard to provide a lot of benefit for this platform in a way that looks meaningful and tangible because there are a lot of smart people with a lot of money that you are competing against for that same attention.
You have to be patient, you have to have a neat project. Don't just do it to witness, do it because you love Steem, and do it in a way that you are providing benefit back to the platform.
What are you doing to try to make this place better?
How do you spend your days growing this ecosystem?
What are you doing to change the value of the platform and to make people have a better experience?
There are lots of ways to do that, there's not just one. The simplest version of this I can think of is that when you move into a neighborhood in the Midwest, your neighbors go and bake you a pie and they say, "Welcome to the neighborhood."
When you live in New England, when you buy a new house typically you are the one that's supposed to bake pies for all your neighbors.
I think Steem as a community is much more like New England where if you want to be accepted with good graces, like the Steem community doesn't need any more pumps or assets from other platforms, what we want are good people.
So, if you can come in and show that you are good people, show that you are generous and show that you have the right mindset, this community will support you. If it's not that, then it won't go as well.
Jerry Banfield:
So, to summarize in very quick generic terms, focus on helping others and understand that most of the time, for both authorship and witness, or any similar things like building followers or whatever it is, email subscribers, whatever we are trying to get for ourselves in it essentially or get as proof of our work, it may take a while and it might not look like we are making any progress, as we are launching our witness posts and we don't get hardly any votes, or post after post like you said, seven or something posts made seven cents, it might look like we are not getting ahead.
What I've noticed as a reader too, lots of times someone will have made a post months ago that actually converts me to a follower. So, especially those first few months, realize it might take a lot longer than it looks like and the people who are ahead of you are actually there to help. They are not there to be competition essentially, but we are really working on this together.
Aggroed:
Yes, right.
Honestly, Ron is here right now. He's the general manager of the MSP-Waves broadcast station and we are going to go look at my basement to see if we can refinish it to make a mini film or production studio out of it. He just showed up at my house, so I think I got to go.
Jerry Banfield:
Well, @aggroed, thank you very much for doing this today, I will share it and I appreciate this time with you.
Have fun with your studio.
Aggroed:
Yes, this was awesome. I appreciate your time, Jerry, and it's good to get some face time with you. I know it's only one way here, but I will reveal my face soon enough, I'm not in the corporate world.
But in the meantime, it was good to talk to you. I look forward to talking to you some more and I don't know, we will try to find some more overlap between ways that we think we can help this community and hopefully we can support one another doing that.
Jerry Banfield:
Absolutely.
Well, have fun and I will see you on Steem.
Aggroed:
Sounds good. Talk to you soon. Bye.
Jerry Banfield:
Thank you very much for being with us, this was an interview with @aggroed on Steem. If you'd like to find him, would you please go to https://steemit.com/@aggroed?
You can also find his projects there. He's one of the founders of the Minnow Support Project at http://minnowsupportproject.org and there's also the @minnowsupport on Steem.
Aggroed, I would imagine, would appreciate your witness votes although he's pretty high up there. I'm sure he would appreciate your witness votes even if they are voting and supporting newer witnesses. I know Aggroed would appreciate your participation in the witness voting system.
Thank you especially to @aggroed for making these voting bots possible. My voting bot and worker proposal system are possible because @aggroed and @yabapmatt collaborated on making this bid voting bot system possible.
Thank you very much for reading this post or watching this interview in the video below. If you found anything useful, would you please leave a like or an upvote on it because that will help more of us enjoy the same benefits out of it?
I love you.
You're awesome, and I will see you on Steem.
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It's great to see how Steemit platform helps us make good money enough(or way better) for our living. I also don't have a job, but because of this platform, i am still alive thankfully. I am very proud everytime i spread this platform thru out the country, my family, my friends, and damn even the people who passed me. I'm grateful for every dollar or cents that i receive. It isn't just about the money, it is about the people who cares for you. The people who appreciate your blogs and the people who tell you informations about bid bots that could help you, the people who maintain peace like @aggroed,@ausbitbank and etc. all part of minnowsupport, PAL. I am very thankful seeing the platform and communities are uniting to help each other to make a better life, better future!
Cheers! ^_^
Very nice! I am happy that you are now seeing the deeper vision with crypto. Today, one of the biggest—and easiest—opportunities for any company is to write on Steem. Got a blog? Use Steem instead! Have an announcement to post on twitter or Facebook? Use Steem instead! Have a customer that feels super excited about what you’re doing? With Steem, that customer can tip you to show the world that they’re serious about their love and attention for your company :) <3
@robertgenito I agree with you.
I see you have voted for 1 witness so far at https://steemit.com/~witnesses and did not make a vote for me yet! Will you please add me to your list of witness votes because your witness vote for me will help fund additional projects to grow Steem via @budgets and help me represent your interests in our community?
Great work! I am so happy with you! :D
I and many like me I guess, rush to comment and upvote the famous steem bloggers like you @jerrybanfield to get a better curation ! But this rush gives us no chance to really read the whole article or watch the whole video ( especially if it is LONG) .. the result is a choice to rush and write a stupid meaningless comment ( like thanks for the post / keep up, and the sh* comments) so we can earn some curation, or to wholy read and wholy watch the long video, then give a meaningful comment if We have any ( with very less curation than the dum ones on top :)
So my question and suggestion for the witnesses and for people who can decide about steem Blockchain is :
Can we make the votes or comments not allowedly start until after 30 minutes at least from the blog post. This will
1- give people chance to really read before they rush to comment.
2- reduce the zombie and meaningless comments
3- increase the quality of the entire steemit system ( referring to medium platform for example)
I wish to hear back from @jerryBanfield ( though I doubt it) , and from anyone who finds any meaning in my suggestion
Cheers 🥂
One thing for sure is that we get to witness how the current rules play out :) when I comment a meaningless post, I receive rewards because other people also voted up my post. Right?
It is right, but not the best way in my humble opinion .
@josteem thank you very much for your interesting suggestion.
I see that you have not voted for any witnesses at https://steemit.com/~witnesses yet. Witness votes are the most important we make on Steem because witnesses create our blockchain in real time and are our chosen community leaders. The easiest way to fully participate is to choose one person we trust as a "proxy" to make all of our witness votes for us. Would you please set me as your proxy at https://steemit.com/~witnesses because this will empower you to indefinitely support me for witness and increase the funding for @budgets?
I like you of course, and doff the hat for your exerted efforts, but honestly speaking, I need some time to read more about the voting process for example when I choose a witness or proxy ( how long this will be valid?) is it 1, 2,5 years, or is a lifetime ? Can I after a certain period of time remove my vote for that person I mistakenly voted for? We don’t want to repeat the mistakes we do in the political elections ( when we choose someone we think s/he is good and will help our voices to be heard, then s/he turns away not giving a sh*t to the huge masses who had offered him support earlier. I am not hinting by any means at you @jerryBanfield . I am just coming from a background where the majority of politicians are wolves in the skin of lambs. Maybe ithe issue is different to the Blockchain! So I would like to be enlighted more ( not about the candidates I love like you) , but about the governing rules for adjusting our votes for witness or proxy over a period of time.
Respect ✊
very nice....long....and useful discussion that give me a deeper vision on steemit.
Glad to see that this platform is changing the lives of many of us...
It is and it’s great
Great work Jerry. I have voted for you to become a witness because of your vision for steemit.
Thank you very much @draffanahmed for your vote.
Sure I will continue to support you. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Jerry for your contribution to steemit.
It is crazy to see and read that people excatly make steem their jobs! I didn't thought that would be possible when i first got into steem and crypto. People like Jerry and Aggroed really make steem and steemit grow for the community! Keep on going guys love it
@bartcardi thank you very much for your kind words. Your positive feedback here is what motivates me to make Steem a priority each day and helps me think what can I do to help the most!
I appreciate you also making a witness vote for me at https://steemit.com/~witnesses because your witness vote helps indefinitely to fund projects growing Steem via @budgets!
No problem jerry keep on going and get to that top 20 witnesses!
Thank You @jerrybanfield I will listen to the interview later today. I like @aggroed and what he does like yourself to make STEEMIT a Great Place to be.
Greetings Jerry, in particular I think your publications are in full progress so that people who know little steemit platform, we have a sense of direction in regard to the revolutionary and innovative that steemit is, and how important it is the steem as a cryptocurrency, in this market that is so changing, but at the same time important in comparison to the real currency of each nation, that on the contrary the cryptocurrencies are independent, and in my case I can realize that I can see all the transactions they do the others, because in this platform everything is done freely, where everyone can learn and see how they do to grow others, in reference to the voting bot, I think it is a very healthy alternative, especially for the people who do not get direct support to grow in this world of steemit.
Just as you find happiness in steem, in the same proportion I have also found mine, since this way of perceiving my life now, I have seen the way in which I can help my family and others who are empathizing in steem , maybe without knowing it, since there are many people who write you and tell you in your publications, however I am a faithful follower of yours but in a silent way, I stop with great caution, and sometimes when I have time, I dedicate A bit to read your publications, as I see them very motivating, especially for when one is demotivated, be it for one circumstance or another, but reading your articles one comes back and recovers in a state of mind and continues fighting to take this great project of steem to the borders of the unimaginable and where we all achieve success.
Success and greetings from Venezuela from your follower @carlos84.
@carlos84 thank you very much for your long comment and for being a follower. Your positive feedback is part of how I know that showing up here each day is useful!
I see you have voted for 2 witnesses so far at https://steemit.com/~witnesses but did not make a vote for me yet! Would you please add me to your list of witness votes because your witness vote for me will help fund additional projects to grow Steem via @budgets?
Greetings brother, ready Jerry I already put my vote for you as a witness, I think it's the best decision I've made since I'm in steemit, since avant-garde people like you in steemit are the ones that make this platform go in development and also that the cryptocurrency steem and steem dollars take satisfactory values for us as users. Greetings friend
I think with the presence of steem is very helpful to many people, especially improve the financial system and investment @jerrybanfield
I already voted for you as witness!Best Wish For You!
@rayhanahmed thank you very much for your vote!
Hiho iam happy that i found https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield and steem. i could be big in furture. Grüsse aus Deutschland. Chrizi
Congrats and keep up the good work
Its really nice and good blog @jerrybanfield
Thanks for update nice steeming and informative post. Its wonderful spirit stuff that steemian community.
I m inspire and also upvote the post.
@nayyabsipra thank you very much for your kind words and upvoting the post.
I see that you have not voted for any witnesses at https://steemit.com/~witnesses yet. Witness votes are the most important we make on Steem because witnesses create our blockchain in real time and are our chosen community leaders. The easiest way to fully participate is to choose one person we trust as a "proxy" to make all of our witness votes for us. Would you please set me as your proxy at https://steemit.com/~witnesses because this will empower you to indefinitely support me for witness and increase the funding for @budgets?
Thanks for guide me and reply the comments
nice post I like your post
Thankssss you are awesome
Good job brother, I always like your writing about steem & thanks to share with us.
Good video your post.
Thank you so much for this interview with aggroed.
@jerrybanfield yeah the work flow of steemit is transparent and hope one day it will go to moon. Earning with Social media is great. Hope we all make this grand and make a great community here. Thanks to all well wishers.
Thanks for your information my friends, very usefull for us,
Follow me please!
yes thats true steemit is a great place to earn and @jerrybanfield i hope that i will successful like you on steemit this is my dream and one more thing about steemit that get people rewards on there post and seciond thing is that all the steemit community are very helpful to new members
@saqibmirza thank you very much for your comment and for including me as one of your 8 witness votes at https://steemit.com/~witnesses because your vote is helping to indefinitely raise more funding for projects intended to grow our community here via @budgets!
@jerrybanfield It would be amazing if you could make video or at least audio interviews with your guests. The post is great, but it's a little long and discouraging for people to read. You are a charismatic guy so you should definitely try to create more audio/video content.
Thanks for your involvement in the community!
Here is the video interview!
Awesome! Thanks! I've just missed it in the post
Thanks for your information!!!!!
very good
a very good post @jerrybanfield ,,,
a good step for steemit progress in the future ,,, your action is very remarkable for beginner in steemit
I don't know who you are Jerry, but you sure do sound and look important to the community, I have seen you everywhere.
yes, I agree with this, most especially the printing press, the invention of cryptocurrency is a total ease to the people and will really make things easy for all.
Yea I wrote it on my blog last week about this, that the best way to accrued more wealth for the wise men is not saving money in the bank but by investing in cryptocurrency because it is the future of the economy, but it's a pity that majority are still asleep on this aspect, that is where we need to educate and bring them to light.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING BOSS
@mike4christ thank you very much for your feedback on the interview. As we all are making more and more posts on Stemit about Steem and other cryptocurrencies, more people will hopefully join us.
I see you have voted for 7 witnesses so far at https://steemit.com/~witnesses and did not make a vote for me yet! Will you please add me to your list of witness votes because your witness vote for me will help fund additional projects to grow Steem via @budgets?
ok, I will vote for you now boss, thanks for your response
Great one!!!!So many things to learn for a beginner like me
-cheers-
I'm the one too who is here to change his life. Trying to learn alot from you. Gave a Witness vote to you as well. Thanks for your guidance and I just need your support to rise. Looking forward
Congratulations!
We wants your success.
Yup... Steemit is the platform that has changed many lives and IS changing many lifes per day.
As if one, thorough in depth post about @aggroed and his MSP wasn't enough, you had to make 2!!!
Happy Sunday my friend
Thanks for sharing this very important information. It still makes me cringe whenever I see a post at 100%.... Don't they know they are throwing rewards away___________??
I think Resteemed this very important guide.. @jerrybanfield give me response plz
Great interview. I noticed people diagree about bid bots, so it’s essential to get educated and make your own decisions. Thank you for sharing all this info with us.
thank you for guiding us
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Hello sir your post very good and very nice I like it man👏👍
you are already doing great on steem this fulltime will just blow the steem
"We can just circumvent any of the stupid rules that men with guns want to create for us."
People should never be forced to do something, its always better to make people want to do something. I love the work you guys are doing, you make us "want" to support it.
Can you make a post soon... and find out more Info about where it's reach, exchange platform updates? Since when making new windows had been closed for too long, and it becomes suspicious.
very interesting post....@jerrybanfield
Lovely masterpiece....such a nice job. You will soar higher!
First thank you for the interview - awesome job! :)
I just want to add with all this positive talk about the voting bots (of which I certainly share most of what is said), there are also big downsides. One being, that the more people who use the bots, the lesser the ROI gets - most of the bots already deliver a -ROI and chances to see the trending charts also get less and less. Especially when I see many people just posting some random meme, invest zero work in their post and send voting bots to these useless, spam posts.
The voting bots are only an advantage, if not everyone uses them and the people who do use them, have put legitimate work into their posts.
I feel the need to put this out, since I see the tendency of big fish becoming blind to these issues, because if you are able to put huge amounts of SBD into the bots, these things don´t matter so much, as for the rest 99% of people here.
steemit is the future for all of us! i just hope the community stays the same if it grows on ..
Wow! Steem is an awesome platform that I really found worthwhile right from the day I set my eyes on the page I saw it as a great opportunity for me to air my views and get people from all over the globe to read and approve and also adding their quota to the platform. And the crypto part is second to non.
Am currently a student in my penultimate class at University of Nigeria (UNN) and hoping grow on this platform, after my graduation I'll really like to go into Steemit FULL-TIME.
Nice Job! Good looking out to you @jerrybanfield
Per @aggroed: "The other debate that I've been able to partake in a lot is, what should we do with the SBD? My response is, help it be as high as possible because this is good for the platform."
As Witnesses, what then are you both doing to revamp the long disproved characterization of the value of SBDs being somehow pegged to one US dollar?
In Steemit user wallets, SBDs are described as, "Tokens worth about $1.00 of STEEM." This is clearly not the case, with one SBD worth about $7 at the time of this post, while one steem is worth about $5.
Per the Smart Media Tokens white paper: "SBD (Steem Blockchain Dollars) are an experimental asset on Steem that relate to the US Dollar, originating w/ Steem’s launch in 2016."
The free market says that the experimental peg to the US dollar is neither enforceable nor applicable under natural supply and demand pressures. It's about time that SBDs are characterized properly, to minimize confusion about both their inherent nature and their valuation potential relative to the steem blockchain.