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When I first got into Bitcoin -- I guess it's been about 3 years ago now -- one of the most inspiring things about it was the idea of economic privilege that Bitcoin would eliminate.
You see, the idea was that there is a banking infrastructure that exists in the first-world nations that doesn't in "developing" nations (I've never liked that term, but it's what we have I guess).
Those of us who live in modern Western nations take for granted that we can get a loan to do things like buy a car or a house or go to school or start a business. We often lament the fact that we have to make payments on these loans with interest. But the reality is that if we didn't have access to these loans, we wouldn't even have cars, houses, educations, or businesses to call our own in the first place (assuming we eventually pay off these debts).
The fact is that debt is an economic privilege of the first world. It allows advancement of production and innovation with a mitigated risk.
What Bitcoin was supposed to bring about was a COMPLETELY NEW STRUCTURE. One that would allow people in poorer countries with with less economic privilege access to lending and payment infrastructures that would allow them to innovate and develop without having the baggage of our legacy banking infrastructure and corruption.
Andreas Antonopoulos has been the best proponent of this idea.
And this is one of the things that got me excited about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
But, sadly, I haven't seen these developments happening. In fact, it seems like Bitcoin is moving further away from this.
Steemit is the gateway crypto
Although the barrier of entry into Bitcoin might not be as low as I would like it to be, the barrier of entry to Steemit is absolutely nothing.
With Steemit, all you need is some sort of device that can connect to the internet -- a cellphone will do, as I prove in my post Steemit Mobile App For iOS NOW: 🚀 Steemify Plus Browser Settings, which I did completely from my cellphone -- and it just so happens that developing nations are bypassing the sluggish infrastructure of Western nations and skipping straight to agile mobile technology.
Technology has the potential to lift people out of poverty. All signs point to the developing world skipping past the eras of landlines and desktop computers and going straight to mobile. That potential for two-way communication is changing the face of international development. “For the first time ever, we’re able to have a clear line to people who are in the middle of nowhere to give them a sense of a future, information, opportunity and choice,” says Chris Fabian, co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation Lab.
How Mobile Phones Are Changing the Developing World
What this means is that people who are very poor but have access to a cell phone can use Steemit for absolutely no cost and start earning cryptocurrency.
THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT BITCOIN MADE BUT STEEMIT DELIVERED
Example:
He uses Steemit to share the goings on of his daily life and he's also very passionate about the platform and what it's been able to do for him and his community.
As he says in his post, ON MY WAY TO WORK... PROMOTION OF STEEMIT FULL TIME.:
Steemit pays me 2times my monthly salary every week and have helped not only me but those around me. I pay even those who support me in my outreach and able to send my mother money weekly. I depend completely on this amazing platform. My life never same.
I looked up
He says that he earns two times his monthly salary every week on Steemit. Well, it looks like over the last 7 days he earned $179.17
And his pending payout for the NEXT 7 days is $268.90 -- looks like you're growing!!
What that means is that this young man went from earning $90 - $130 PER MONTH at his local job to earning $720 - $1040 per month here on Steemit.
Because of Steemit,
No, it's much greater than that.
It's greater than double his income.
It's greater than QUADRUPLE his income.
And the thing is, his account is still very modest. He is well on track to growing his channel into something that could potentially support a whole community.
That is such a beautiful thing that it truly warms my heart and brings a smile to my face.
Cryptocurrency is NOT just some money laundering scheme or a gateway for criminals to trade on the dark web. At least with Steemit, it's a completely open and free-to-use platform that has the potential to LIFT real people OUT OF POVERTY.
Steemit could change the world in this way.
What do you think?
Steemit has saved my ass financially at least 4 times that I can name.
It is lifting people out of poverty and giving hope to the world.
What do you think about this platform? About this gateway crypto called Steem?
Let me know in the comments below, and go show
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