Will Libra Help Steem, or Hurt it?
The release of Facebooks white paper on Libracoin has caused quite a stir. It’s a hot topic in the crypto and fintech world and I have read a lot of different opinions on the subject.
On the negative side, we have the centralization, ownership, and control by the very thing many think blockchains purpose is to oppose. On the extreme side, there is the die-hard anti-establishment crowd which has nothing positive to say at all about Facebook's Libra coin. Many of these would consider XRP not to be a true blockchain, although its not only the die-hard anti-establishment crowd that feels this way towards XRP. Yet XRP has managed to hold top 3 position in the crypto world for a long time now.
I don’t come from a technical background. I might know a lot about the inner workings of STEEM, but when it comes to blockchain in general, I am by far an expert on the topic. I didn’t come to crypto to escape from centralized control or to protect my data. In fact, like 90% of the world, I don’t care to much about all that stuff. Its part and parcel with the online connected world we live in.
I came to crypto as a business person, with the intentions of exploring opportunities for online entrepreneurs like me to utilize this technology to gain competitive advantage. And though my research I wondered here into steem.
Many of you are aware of how I have been using STEEM with my online business. If you are not familiar with what I am doing, you can check out this blog post to get the gist. The Quick story is, I teach Excel online, I publish a blog post every week which includes a learn and earn activity. Readers of the blog that carry out the activity and leave a comment with the solutions are rewarded with upvotes. The aim is to get people engaging more on my blog, and for my blog to become more popular than others of the same topic because I am rewarding learners with steem and so seen to add more value than just another blog that doesn’t value their reader and yet competing for their attention.
One of the challenges I have found is that people are ‘scared’ of crypto, the fear of the unknown. The bad publicity crypto has received in the past still rings loud. There is also a mindset that crypto is an investment vehicle and a risky one at that. We all know only too well from the level of power-ups on steem alone, not everyone has an investment mindset. Then there is the complexity of getting involved. Wallets, Keys, exchanges. There are just too many steps, too many clicks for the ‘general’ people to bother with.
Personally, I see Facebook entering the crypto space as a good thing. And I know many agree. With billions of users, all the advancements Facebook have made todate have been accepted and used by the general public. And most often, with no questions asked. If not Facebook would have flopped by now. Launching crypto is just another innovation from this Global giant. Most people won't even notice it happen as it grows in usage and popularity. That’s what Facebook are good at.
I believe this will take crypto currency into mainstream use. I believe STEEM will benefit from that and I wanted to test the theory.
Testing my Theory
Each week I create a post on my blog and market it using my email list, social media and other traditional online methods bloggers would use. It works well and always creates a spike in my traffic. With the announcement by Facebook, I decided this week I was going to piggyback off this topical trend. Never before have I mentioned the price value of steem in my newsletter or marketing, and I very rarely allude to cryptocurrency. I have avoided this because of the challenges I have found and I have kept things really simple.
This week however I went all out. Knowing Facebook coin is trending, I decided to piggyback my efforts this week. The quote below is taken from one version of the email that went out.
This week, instead of a new post, you have an opportunity to catch up on some of the learn and earn activities and earn yourself some STEEM tokens. These tokens are currently valued at over $0.40 and can be easily traded for Cash, Bitcoin, and other Cryptocurrencies. With Facebook launching their own coin soon, I’m sure it won’t be long before you can swap Facebook coins for Steem and Steem for Facebook coins. You have an opportunity to get ahead of the game, just by learning Excel
Other social posts yesterday include the likes of:
Results
Damn dude, this is going to work. Below is the daily traffic stats to my blog. The marketing campaign yesterday (unpaid by the away) was a tremendous success.
Other comparable campaigns were done on the 29th May, 5th and 12th June. This campaign had a 65% increase in traffic over the campaign on the 5th of June.
Although it could be a coincidence I think this is strong evidence Facebook Libracoin will help Steem and carrying out this experiment has left me rather excited about the possibilities.
Yes there will be libracoin haters, but here comes mass adoption.
The next question is, are we ready for mass adoption??????
Really want to see how it will turn out.
Interesting!
I'm fussy i know...
Maybe even a hashtag too.
Hopefully your course explodes (and we get a few more people here too).
One step at a time @abh12345, let people figure out what crypto is first before we bombard them with different coins. It's good enough #cryptocurrency and #blockchain are trending. Baby steps and before they know it they be transacting on steem like there is no tomorrow 🤑
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Correct!
I believe it will have a positive impact on the crypto space no doubt
That's some excellent clever marketing right there - I agree that a 30% (roughly) spike in your traffic certainly suggests people are interested in what I'm going to call FaceCoin (I can't bring myself to use the real brand name, it's like calling a Prison a liberation centre).
I guess that's a lesson to increase traffic - be specific and bang on the news trend!
I'm optimistic about the impact Facebook will have... we just need to be positioned right to market this place effectively. Something I'm less inclined to do with top 20 witnesses changing the ecosystem to benefit themselves.
'Pay to learn'... please don't take me to court if I steal that idea, I can see that working wonders with my blog. Although I'd best check out the legality of my clients being mainly 17. Sure it'll be fine.
its not pay to learn, its learn and earn :-) I even have the steem account @learn-and-earn. I'm working on a program that will attract other online instructors to steem and a way to store certs of completion and course progress reports on the steem blockchain, I can't work fast enough and wish I was ready to release something.....I think the next few months will be very exciting and I would love to use the positioning of being ahead of the game, if I can get their fast enough.
'learn and earn' - yes that's what I meant. I was thinking of you paying them to earn which sounds much blunter, but when you're used to teaching teenagers BLUNT is effective!
Sounds exciting, and I know exactly what you mean about staying ahead of the game. I have big plans for total domination of A-level sociology online - whether they come to fruition before I take off to live off-grid remains to be seen!
lol I hear ya, well if there is anything we can do to piggyback off each other, do let me know. If are doing something in that space, the @learn-and-earn account will be there to support it
this: "FaceCoin (I can't bring myself to use the real brand name, it's like calling a Prison a liberation centre)." ME TOO. I CAN'T.
Your experiment looks great! Although I'm not a fan of Facebook, I can admit whatever they do makes a huge splash, and if that will make the average Joe more receptive to public crypto, such as Steem, I can only be glad for us.
I think that kinda sums up the post, but had I of written that then it would just have been a shit post 😜
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I'm not convinced FB will really be in the interest of the entire cryptospace just like has no interest in providing any sort of organic reach even though it has is 22% of the worlds refferal traffic to other sites. They will do the same and cut out middle men and as consumers and users get used to it they will continue to squeese because you have no choice but to use the service, eat into business margins and we will see wide spread business failure in my book.
Im not anti-innovation but power like this that goes unchecked is likely to not be a good thing
I'm not a FB fan but I have mo problems in using them to gain advantage, just like i did in this experiment. If i am happy to use them, it would make sense for them to be happy to use what they feel will give them an advantage. That's business.
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Very much the same thoughts in terms of the anti-establishment mind set. I stumbled on Steem in working a business angle too. Mine was from a confluence of interests in content management systems and crypto.
I'm thinking that this will be a boon to Steem and any crypto that has more to offer than a simple exchange of funds. The announcement is so wide spread that I have people, that previously had no interest in digital currency, now asking me about it. Facebook if anything has pushed that to the masses.
It's time to market the shit out of Steem and the dApps that are on Steem. Great idea to tie it in to your marketing.
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Starting to look like half the politicians in the US hate the idea, so it might struggle to even get off the ground.
Of course they would. The realisation their market cap will be larger than the federal reserve would make most governments nervous
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1M dollar question indeed but I have another even more important one:
Is steem blockchain ready and capable for mass adoption?
It's funny how Visa and Mastercard are backing it but no banks are interested it puts the spotlight onto the space if nothing else.
Let's use the hype about Libra to introduce real Blockchains and Crypto-Currencies to a wider crowd!
Woah!!!
That was smart ;)
wow you so clever ♥ Excellent
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Hahaha, I am going to borrow this xD
be my guest my friend...
@theycallmedan, Shall we put a three speak logo on the bottom? and get people to blast it out? ;)
For sure!
This has some dystopian potential, imagine people stealing each others' viral memes en masse, trying to exploit them for clicks and currency... Well, even if this actually happens, it will be interesting at least.
By the way I'm
stealingborrowing this image too.me too
wow, so decentralized, much blockchain
Nice one :)
Oh man, that is all too real...
This is too funny ! and the scary part is it actually can happen.. Also, with Libracoin, hackers have more incentive to hack Facebook accounts
The control capabilities reminds me of this clip of an Aaron Russo interview (not saying there's any paralells) :
Haha central control center here.
deadly, I love it :-)
This is perfect!
This is exactly what will happen.
We'll be taking 90% of your tokens as payment to reactivate your wallet.
lol, thats epic!
What happens if you call somebody fat on Facebook.....will they kick you off Facebook and hold/Freeze your Libra coin. Don't touch it people...it's a trap to enslave us all.
Libra bad, Bitcoin Good!
I don't support Facebook and don't support another PayPal copycat with fancy marketing terms
that funny
Some here in Spain say that LIBRA is a trojan horse to introduce the owners of FIAT money into the crypto world. They refuse to lose control, so they will use the largest company of registered users in the world for their purposes.
That's what I've heard, I'm just ignorant.
Steem? What's steem? Facebook capitalization more than whole cryptomarket.
What is the relevance? They are not distributing Facebook equity via Libra.
The capitalization put into Libra by the founding members is actually only $280 million.
Well, FB is mainly a social network and there's not too much social network chains around so there's that.
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well with libra being so centralized, people who use it, later on will start talking and want to research into other forms of crypto that are more decentralized
Libracoin will I think a vehicle for steem to move forward and penetrate the mass adoption.
I see libracoin as competitor for steem, but it is the way for more people to take part and involve in cryptocurrency. and it would help to increase the chance for cryptocurrencies to get better price. we like it or not FB still take big part in social media. Nice to be able to visit and comment on your post @paulag
I think will help the comunnity.
You didn't include any useful link to check this out, well, here it is:
https://libra.org/en-US/
and here is a post about it on techchrunch:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/
thanks!!!!
The only point I find to be useful to the crytpo world with Libra is the mass adoption. Everything else looks SUPER shady to me. I don't trust the corporations signing on just like I have zero trust in fb. This venture is not truly for the people, there is FAR too much money to be made by the powers that be. Where money is so is corruption.
My sentiments exactly!
Mine too.
Its may be or not truely time can say what will happen if that there is some difficulties in its own platform than steem,structure is not suitable like steem to start something like us.may be or not.i am not sure.
Shade, background image, camera angle, shot – splendid :-) Resteem for you...
This is not an "extreme" position, Ripple Labs themselves acknowledge that Ripple XRP is not a blockchain.
If you think that Ripple is a blockchain, can you tell me what block number the "Ripple Blockchain" is at now? Can you tell me the hash of the latest Ripple "block"?
Ripple doesn't use blocks. It doesn't have a chain of blocks. It is not a blockchain and this isn't even a controversial statement. Ripple uses a "last closed ledger" as their distributed data structure, not a blockchain.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/what-ripple
This isn't a political disagreement. It's a matter of fact that Ripple is not a blockchain. Cryptocurrency yes, blockchain no.
I did say it's not only the extreemests that feel that way about xrp, and I also said I dont know much about blockchain. Yet their success as a crypto can be measured by market cap.
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It's not like facebook is going to go away anytime soon. using their announcement to promote your programs and to get people interested in this manner was a terrific idea on your part. I imagine you will be getting a few follow-up emails, of how and where can I learn to earn request.
:-) and I wouldn't think I am the only one capitalizing on this. People can use facebook as much as they use us. After all buisness is business
Facebook announcement will drive massive adoption. Governments will be concerned, since FB could be bigger than any nation!!! I think central banks will work with companies to adopt these technologies. FB proposed a stable coin backed by FIAT. This in many ways different that the crypto eco system. Think of it as a block chain technology applied to facilitate cheaper transactions aka a facilitator for fast transaction of FIATs.. If the idea is constrained within these boundaries, central bankers will be on-board
I might be wrong but "block chain technology applied to facilitate cheaper transactions" I think is part of the parcel with this one. And with the partners involved, paying for goods and services is on the way but by the looks of things, bypassing banks. the next year will be interesting for sure
I need to read the white paper
Yes. @paulag
Libra is an opportunity that the Steem chain must grab with both hands.
Without SMTs, structured as we are, unfortunately, no.
• In our quest for quality content, are we killing a fledgling Steemit network effect?
• Can we reduce the Steemit onboarding friction to that of Gmail or Facebook?
• How sticky is the platform? How many rep 60+ contributors are not contributing anymore? Why?
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hi
Steem has only been around for a few years now. Still in its infancy stage wouldn't you say?
Yes. @chey
How much time does it have to grow up, before another platform makes it irrelevant?
re: MySpace, Friendster, Facebook.
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So the answer is obvious, we need Tila Tequila.
Agreed
What @krecikdwamiljony said.
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Selling souls has a price tag.
The thing is @stellabelle most people dont care. The proof is the sheer volume of users. Yes there are some that do care, but most dont.
Great to see you stop by. Hope you are keeping well 😁
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I’ve been slacking on keeping up-to-date with all what’s been happening on Steem, however, upon grasping that the new hard fork is going to bring some new sort of DAO where anyone can submit proposals for projects...
I’d like to recommend/invite you to consider what sort of proposals you might be able to make, marrying your skill in formulating & executing such ‘test projects’ as described in this post with the resources available through this new SteemDAO thing to leverage to scale up your personal impact and bring these types of marketing projects for others in the community to use...
(Hope I articulated that well so you grasped the idea I had in mind).
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aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee what a lovely comment. Thank you so much for your kind words. Funny I do stuff for steem all the time and have not considered when the DAO is live I could apply for funding :-)
Seed planted... ☺️
I know that Libra isn't crypto by any definition. It's more like video game gold, than a cryptocurrency.
I've noticed people are comparing what the Libra experience on FaceBook is going to be like, with what Steemit is today. In other words, they're talking about Steemit when they talk about how they think FB is going to do things. A reward-based currency for content creators. Interesting, anyway.
Hi, friend! :)
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm still uninformed (haven't seen yet) if this Libra (my zodiac sign ;) is going to have real operational blockchain / explorer / ?
..otherwise it's really virtual as you say...
My thoughts are, that just because it's FB, it will probably do ok (after they go thru the process of answering to the Regulators, Congress, and the European Union).
I am sort of in the crowd of anti-establishment (don't really care for $XRP either)
Having said that, from an investors viewpoint, you're right:
Just another fact about it to know and take into consideration.
I think your right, just because its FB it will probably do okay. I think it will be an interesting year, and no matter what side of the fence one may sit on, we all want crypto to be successful :-)
Steemit charges nothing to use the platform. Who knows Facebook could charge for this thing like they make you pay so more people see your posts
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I dont think its going to be used to charge for publishing or posting....
Great insight @paulag, look, I'm a big believer of the Dow Theory, and, as the first rule of this theory says: "the market discount everything".
What it means is that the market reflects the emotions, decisions and thoughts of buyers and sellers, both of which are influenced by news or public opinion.
Following that same line of thought, LIBRA may be both good and bad for STEEM, but in my opinion, it will be good, and that will also depend, fundamentally, on how the STEEM community will take advantage of the launch of LIBRA and how it will affect public opinion regarding cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
In short, I am absolutely sure that we are at the beginning of a bull market in the critomarket in general, given the good news there will be about it, and at STEEM we have to take advantage of that.
I too think we are at the beginning of a bull market and I hope the steem community make the most of this while they can
It will never take hold until it is fully tracked and the government knows they are getting their cut. Not sure what Facebook was thinking otherwise being a company within the USA and saying it would be totally anonymous. To me LIBRA is a dead project and wont hurt or help cryptocurrency at least for the rest of the year.
"To me LIBRA is a dead project and wont hurt or help cryptocurrency at least for the rest of the year."
Interesting statement, I do hope is not the case. ok FB will always be FB which i am not a fan of, but im not sure this project will really flop
Ok, let's think about the facts we have:
That will be about it, FB are bad news to the goal of the decentralized economy proposed in 2009 with Bitcoin because it has the potential of shooting down the competition. But it is a good news for business-oriented people of the crypto ecosystem... this will divide the community again between those who want to be in crypto for making profit (a legitimate goal) and those who seek freedom and privacy (count me in this group).
Adding all that up, I think FB is good news because everyone will be aware of crypto and its potential. Also, those who are on crypto for the quick grab will most certainly land on FB coin, thus letting great projects such as Steem for people interested in other objectives like freedom, censorship resistance, and privacy. Finally those who are seeking for these characteristics and still are not aware of what they can have with platforms such as Steem, will first land on Libra and when they found out that is more of the same sh.t they will focus sight on Steem or another similar platform.
I will check your excel blog, best regards.
Could not agree more. So many have a vested interest in a particular coin that they miss the point that it is the blockchain technology itself that is changing the world. Any adoption is good adoption. It will only take a few cancelled transactions on the Libra network to have their users looking for a safer wallet. 😊
there are a lot of orginisations offering 'blockchain' solutions, even microsoft has a blockchain solution. all adoption of this technology is good, even if many dont see it that way
Totally in agreement! 👍
I also see this news as a good thing, regardless of whether it’s a good idea or how centralised or not it is and etc... The beneficial impact is to bring crypto to the mass as you said.
well it's causing quite a stir already. Interesting times ahead
Libra is already scaring regulators and banks, we'll see what happens in a while.
yes I see challenges ahead
A very nice opportunity for the new Crypto and to use it to buy Steem Power... 😉☺️❤️
if libra will be as easy as going to the shop to buy and we have a libra/steem pair, that would rock
lol STEEM is hurting itself just fine.
agreed!!!!!
Yes, I think it will popularize cryptocurrencies and it will depend on how the community react to it. Will it seize that advantage or will it succumb to the Pacman style of Facebook of doing business.
seizing the advantage and the timing is a big thing. we have about a year to get steem right if you ask me
If you ask general people about blockchain, they have no idea what you just said. We always dream of cryptos mass adoption. Facebook will help to do that.
People will be interested to learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain. And yes, they will find out about STEEM.
my feelings agree, people will learn over time
@aggroed and @blocktrades should build Libra <=> STEEM exchange so more FB user can buy jump to STEEM with Libra.
Honestly, this is exactly what needs to happen as early as is possible.
Of course, the problem is that no one knows when or if this will be possible. While FB has talked about being able to build your own wallets and interoperable applications, there has pointedly been absolutely no discussion of whether Libra will be able to be exchanged outside of the FB architecture.
As someone else noted, Libra at this point resembles World of Warcraft gold more than it resembles what most of us think of as crypto-commodities. That is not an accident.
This may be so.
Hopefully so.
They said that Libra's competitor is XRP (Ripple). Also many have speculated that Libra will annihilate XRP.
Based on that narrative I think Libra will not hurt STEEM (it will but not so much I think).
I think it will also help STEEM (again, it will, but not so much).
Maybe time will tell if it is going to help or hurt STEEM.
I agree, Facebook will introduce crypto to millions of non-users, they will then want more and explore the opportunities, some will find Steem and be of benefit to us.
Being a member of the readers, who is too old to learn/need/worry about, to me, new programs, I will leave it to the youth.
hahaha looks like your well ahead of the youth already
Capitalism was always good in incorporating things made to get away from it.
But in case of the Facebook coin I don't think it will be (very) succesful, simply because Facebook, as it is, is already beyond it's peak and going downwards.
yes but they own instragram and whatsapp....and they are on the up :-). Also look at the partner, ebay, uber, spotify, the list goes on
I don't think a social platform is on the up when it loses active users from month to month.
You don't have to be too concerned about one of your brands declining if you have a few others that are fine.
Yeah, the time has come for mass adoption as it is obvious now people in general have to learn some more tech gimmicks :)
I've learned some useful facts from your article. It's very well and simple explained, so thank you! ;)
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you are most welcome, I am glad you found it of value
Libra means freedom. I guess you all need to be free from the bondage of HODL, PUMP and DUMP, BULL RUNS etc.
well there be no pump and dumps with a stable coin. marketcap is more what we need to look out for
Informative ... Thanks
Will Done @paulag we are all so proud of you We wish you all support and let the world tells what your doing and what good use specially students who really not know how to use excel, world, power point thank you very informative god blessed and may the god blessed as all.
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Your Welcome Madam..
@paulag only 100 btc sold in 24 hour trade and steem price drop upto 15 percent what The hell problem with steem price why Steem team is not investing their money to make steem stable
you are as much of the steem team as the rest of us. are you referring to steemit inc?. and if so, how centralised do you want steem to be?
Well, IMO, I guess Libracoin will help blockchain & crytocurrencies mass adoption as much as Paypal, Neteller, Payoneer, Payza, Skrill, Advcash and many others in that style. };)
yep, paypal and the likes advanced online payments, remember when that came out at first? ( showing my age now) and the objections and fear of using it
Yeah, I pretty much remember all that when you were just a cute little girl like you are right now. (showing your age and all) :)
But however, I'm not sure if the cynicism of my previous comment went well across with the real message that I wanted to be understood.
I meant, Libracoin would help to real blockchain projects & cryptocurrencies mass adoption as much as the other traditional digital currencies had contributed to the same purpose in the past. That is; zero, zilt, nyet, nothing, nada. ;/
Speaking of showing one’s age: recall the 1990’s with Web 1.0 and we all had HTML homepages, pre-Facebook, pre-Google. And the much-reviled Microsoft had all the same accusations of monopolistic practices as Facebook does now (IMHO both reputations truly earned.)
Microsoft forced (almost) everyone (myself included) who couldn’t plunk down $2k on a Powermac to adopt personal computing and the Internet with their crappy Windows OS and even crappier IE browser. But we can thank them for making mass adoption happen.
Sometimes it takes a big company with deep pockets to move the needle. It’s unfortunate that innovation so often leads to consolidation. That seems to be the price of unfettered capitalism.
Microsoft, although still a major player, seems to have been disrupted by much of the rest of FAMGA, in mobile, search, AI home assistants, etc. Facebook may be headed for a similar decline. But don’t be surprised if history repeats itself, and the next big dog makes the same moves.
The mass adoption is a good thing in the long run, if it happens. Since it’s still centralized, Facebook is more in competition with credit card banks and fiat currencies, IMHO, than with Steemit or even BTC. The price of BTC is (for the moment) still strong, so a rising tide lifts all boats.
It would be nice, however, if tech could get mass adoption and democratization in a more egalitarian way. But I’m not holding my breath. Instead I’ll just hold (hodl?) my coins.
A while ago I invested in XRP because they adopted a strategy of cooperating with governments and other institutions while other projects were and are still trying achieve the opposite.
I agree that the safety of decentralization, censorship safety and privacy are crucially important for certain blockchain applications and even to protect society from governments acting at will.
But at the same time I believe that the projects actually going moon will be the ones trying to be the least shady and as open as possible.
I still can't decide where to put the Libra project. On the one hand they have the power and means to achieve mass adoption, transparency and TRUST. On the other hand they're Facebook.
I made my biggest crypto profits from XRP and I built a log cabin with the proceeds.
I do agree though, facebook is still facebook
I hope this will expore more users to blockcahin in those kind of network wich include Steemit , hope that i will help..
i didnt read a lot about libra, but i like it your aproach and marketing campaing it is cool to find this cool ideas like to read about it keep doing nice post, you earned a follower who may learn some excel too thanks.
oh I so love new excel followers - in case you missed it my brand account is @theexcelclub
Facebook entering crypto means nothing to Steem.
Steem is too small and unimportant. Hell we just dropped below 70 in Market cap.
Lol.
Maybe if someone reached out and made some kind of connection.
But really... Steem has too many problems to fix before we are able to make anything significant happen.
Could this contact with a large content creator bring some optimism?
I would say, "No."
Great article by the way. Awesome marketing strat you did there by including a very hot topic. Awesome job! :)
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it will get people into crypto and get them used to it, i hope it doesn't take off as people are such sheeple but bitcoin isn't going anywhere and hopefully the right people will adopt bitcoin and get coinbase accounts. Its the future and confirmation that we are ahead of what is coming.
If Steemit is marketed as a real forum, and algorithm free, you could blow steem up comfortably, content Creator's are screaming for a stable free speech atmosphere, and Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are going to go the way of the dinosaur with their draconian censorship. Now is the time for Steemit to get bold and push for that market share.
Personally I'm not a fan of fb basically being a copycat and introducing a coin. FB is too "big brother" for that and as far as complexity goes, took me a long time to learn it all, but i did. Anyone can learn the basics but as you said most in the general public won't
What's interesting about all of this is to review it. There is a kind of joke that needs to be shouted at the founder when they once banned cryptocurrency ads on Facebook. What is the difference between Libra and Bitcoin, some people say that Libra is a currency / medium of exchange, while Bitcoin is more than that and includes a large investment. There is a kind of confusion in the development of this theory.
Libra will help Bitcoin, but it will wipe out at least 1000 altcoins
Concerning Steem, its MarketCap is stable, because...
The number of users is stable.
Until that fact changes - there is no bright future
I think that no matter what anyone thinks about Facebook this new Libracoin is going to get everyone’s attention.
I plan to install the WhatsApp and the wallet when available, to stay on top of this, it will be a game changer.
I believe your average Joe on Facebook will now have there eyes opened to all crypto.
This can only help Steem, we just need to make on-boarding easier or we will be passed !
I keep hearing that we are making it easier, but I just had a friend signup and it’s still confusing to them!🙃
I will give you only one number 10 thousand dollars
It is the number that needed to surpass bitcoin, so that it traced its route up to 15 thousand dollars, and it is not coincidence, in fact if bitcoin goes back up to 15 thousand .. it is possible that with the Raly that can reach up to 20 thousand dollars in less than two months.
But this I affirm seeing, the acceptance by one of the companies of more influence in the opinions of Internet. The super giant of facebook had no choice but to surrender to the charms of the blockchain and it took a long time, but fortunately it was launched in one of the best moments of bitcoin or the market, when it remains at more than 300 billion dollars, and now we can hardly send Libra on facebook crossed with that super publicity I have no doubt that social networks like steemit will reach at least 10 million people and the steem will reach 5 dollars per crypto
I believe that LIBRA is the Trojan Horse in the cryptomarket! It is the next level of data-collection from its users...so BEWARE!!
Why are you all talking about this Libra shit ?
No one cares about, fuck you.
Finally someone who promotes steem! I like it!
Libra will always do the opposite , fcrs it will hurt and wont do any good. never. it's fully centralized and controlled by elite investors which is exactly opposite what crypto is. crypto is no bullsh it like fiat money !
People should realize anything related to Facebook has ZERO positive intent for them. It's all in the interest of Suckerberg and his shareholders. They have already enslaved 2 billions users with dopamine releasing social network, next it's gonna be their wallet?
For sure, there is no doubt about it. Libra will help steem. Facebook is a large community and with its latest competition in the crypto world, i think it will be a boost for steem
Mam this your initiative is superb. You have just given me a handful of idea that I can swing into action before the arrival of Libra coin
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And of course, one of the MAJOR reasons for people being 'scared' of crypto was heavily promoted when Facebook and Google banned advertising of almost all this field! cc @apshamilton
I dont think the creation of Libra will be a good thing for steem.
It will highlight the existence of Steem.
Personally I have slowly posted on Facebook about Steemit and Libra to my close friends. Its interesting though that there are a large number of users on facebook not interested in making money but to connect with lost friends.
I feel this is the challenge with Steemit and Steem as the premise is to raise upvotes to content making what we post as single use up to seven days as not alot of people stay to read all old posts greater than 7 days old. Unfortunately I am one of those at times.
As a compromise I link what I like on Facebook in the hopes of raising awareness and also justifying my lack of engaging with authors and curators.
I must say though that Steemit has motivated me to be creative as opposed to my social media usage prior to Steemit being about anything just to post something. I thank the devs for this. Deeply.
Oh my this little comment is getting out of hand.
In closing Libra will affect Steemit but in a good way.
upvote "It's good karma"
I just wait and see and I hope it will work together Ma'am @paulag. I hope both steemit and Facebook will succeed. Still I love steem so much.
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I knew that I will benefit from libra coin
Libra Going to be No.1 Stable Coin in cryptocurrency.
I hope it's also listing on L2exchange also
L2 EXCHANGE
I maybe mistaken as I haven't fully read it all and only did some skip reading as I have been busy the last few days since it was released. But what I got was it will reward investors but not their users too, unlike steem and other blockchain social media sites that reward not only their investors but their end users, US. So Blockchain Social media will always be better than Fakebook with their Fakecoin.
I suggest you to add a tag 'sct' in the first place. Hahaha
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Wow, thats a real promotion for steem too. First they use libra, get to know about steem which is not controlled or account can be suspended.
I'd love to see it... then again, I don't know where Bitcoin actually came from and how - is it really all it's proposed to be? Will cash be obsolete?
I agree with what Jeff Berwick said about Libra being a win/win for the crypto market. To sum up: either it will flop like the last attempt at making a Facebook currency did or it will simply make the idea of online currencies more attractive and it will get more and more people involved with cryptos. Mass adoption will happen eventually. Then, hopefully we can get away from fiat currencies completely. Also, if it is possible to convert Libra into real cryptos that will be an incentive to use it and get people into real cryptos.
In my view it should only be used to convert to other currencies. In my view Libra and XRP for that matter are not real cryptos. The purpose behind cryptos from the start was to offer alternatives to fiat currencies and the inherent corruption of central planning involved with them.
Steem team should improve their platform and do what they're doing(developing, ... etc), and bring more investors and stop talking about other companies success in the front page of this platform, this is just weakness!
Libra will be used just from investors, but no one will give the chance to became the global crypto, beacouse it's too much a dispotic coin to control us. Don't give them the way to do it
of course it's investment vehicle! that's how good things start before they catch on and more money settles the price action. However, FB is fine, it won't hurt what Bitcoin is at all, and the value of its particular form of network. But we must come to accept different forms of blockchain, public and people and more controlled ones. We need some control, especially for dapp platforms, which is why i support EOS too.
I have strange alarm bells ringing because Facebook's project Libra seems similar to another project white paper that I have been following, Element Zero - whether there's an actual correlation or not who knows! Element Zero foundation is a not-for-profit organization with a stablecoin that completely removes volatility. So, I'm not too keen to get on board, knowing that solutions are already out there, who don't have a bad history. Facebook had a big name and following once, but the platform is declining in popularity and many of its recent developments seem to be grasping at straws. Libra as development is not strong enough to bring a company that's already in decline back. Moreover, blockchain adoption at the cost of enforcing centralized surveillance so big powers can keep their monopoly on society is unacceptable. we ought to contemplate whether this is healthy and worth giving away our purchasing information.
I think it ultimately will help, as it brings cryptocurrency discussion to the mainstream. Many of the people I encounter think cryptocurrencies are terrible because that is all they have heard from the media. While the companies and media were spewing how terrible they were..dark web, drugs, money laundering, they were developing their own currencies. Facebook, JP Morgan are a couple of prime examples.
Nice to read you, @paulag.
I like your post. It's a clear explanation about crypto of Facebook