RE: Power down period on Steem now reduced to 4 weeks. Are you powering down?
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I am powering down ever since. The thing is that I kept on cross posting there and earned some more tokens. Hence I am waiting to get my load on Friday and after that happens will start a new four weeks power down. The way the trending page looks though it feels like the platform is becoming a chinese/korean one. It probably won't die but I don't see it getting too much attention anymore from the media and new users.
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Makes sense. I don't want to sound a conspiracy theorist, but to me some warning bells sounded when a Chinese Government company kept scoring Steem in Top 10 and we bragged about it.
Update: I actually wrote about it back then on Steem.
Exactly. I was thinking at that a couple of times as well. Why would they do that. Now they have their own platform. For now there are still English speakers over there but who knows for how long they will be around.
When I come across Steemit, I upvote any posts on the Trending page I can't read. At least it will be useful for something if it becomes a culture-specific version like Golos. They'll have to deal with spam, speculation and censorship, but that's what they've chosen.
I had good conversations with English-speaking Korean users, but the crypto culture is focused on speculation in Korea and China, even more than in Europe and the US. It's not simply an Asian thing, I think there's more interest in blockchain development in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong for example.
Korean investors were the people who pushed Steem Dollars above $5. I have mixed feelings about the Hive price blowing up after being listed on Huobi. We haven't earned that valuation yet.