For
all his faults he was right about Bitcoin and I owe him one for that
awesome tip! I went on to do very well on BTC. But I lost
interest in Steemit after later learning more about it's origins, and also
seeing how things played out on that platform, but what the hell, it
started me on an interesting path.
Was that a Freemason shirt Jeff?
A
path of posting on Steemit, then Hive, then Flote, then Bastyon, and
finally Blurt , but the same pattern always repeated - they all got
gradually more boring until they disappeared up their own arses...
I
have been using two main online identities for 25 years now - SIFT and
FROT. But when the CIA were setting up Steemit in early 2016 they
reserved almost all the best one syllable four letter names for
themselves (although they missed FROT for some reason).
So when I set up
my first account, SIFT was gone and I already suspected that there was
some sort of deep state Satanic psyop going on there, so I called my
account SIFT666.
And
that did help me take off on STEEMIT to some extent because there were
quite a few whales who dug that Satanic stuff, and maybe thought I did
too
At
my SIFT666 Steemit peak (late 2016, early 2017) I had about 2000
followers, my posts were earning between US$5 and US$400 a pop, and they
sometimes had more than 100 replies with all sorts of images and links.
It was very entertaining at times!
But
all good things must end, and Steemit totally imploded so I switched
over to Hive, by then having a lot more inside knowledge, and bought up a
large holding very cheap. Later I sold it before Hive also imploded up
it's own arse, and soon after that I was blacklisted for posting anti
"vax", and anti germ theory information at the start of the Covidhoax.
These
days Steemit is a Chinese owned joke filled with Korean shitposts. If
anyone is looking for Asian entertainment I recommend Ali Express where
you can see stuff like 75 thousand listings for dildos all written in
Chinglish.
https://www.aliexpress.com
These days Steemit
is a total waste of space where insiders fling money at their own
alt accounts for posting pictures of the bowl of noodles they just
ate... So it's an Asian version of Hive really!
HIVE still has the best front end of all time: PEAKD,
which is brilliant, but the insider cabal, the corruption, the
relentless downvoting and the censorship made the platform an unusable
lemon. I hope the insiders are proud of themselves, for destroying what
could have been a great blogging platform.
FLOTE
and BASTYON both followed slightly different downward trajectories,
based more around bad decisions, bad design, lack of vision, and
incompetence, rather than obvious corruption, but ultimately they too
ended up as dead end platforms with no prospects.
The last blockchain I tried was BLURT. Why did I even considering posting on it
at all? Because I started thinking it might have a chance of recovering with it's BLURTLATAM front end - https://blurtlatam.intinte.org
But
no, that went down the tubes as well. It's main strength was no
downvoting, but that feature wasn't enough by itself, and Blurt tokens
ended up worthless.
And that is why I gave up on blockchains.
First
and foremost, I think the elephant in the room with all these
blockchain platforms is that earning rewards from blogging just leads to
endless suck whale dick for a dollar "safe posts". And along with that
it leads to whales controlling the content by removing the rewards, and
also to a bunch of tame insider puppets posting endless variations of
the same posts to get their rewards.
I
have since concluded that blogging is best done only for my own
entertainment, and these days I really don't expect to get rewarded for
it. I also have the comments turned off, and leave mindless online interactions to Facebook.
