I have learned a lot over my stay so far on Steemit. But the most important aspect of Steemit that is unique to the platform is the curation system. I have been scammed many times on the cryptocurrency

The sign that a particular cryptocurrency (or rather crypto-ecosystem) will be successful is if there's a genuine use case. Well for Steem there are several. But a particular one I was made aware of recently:

I was having lunch with a couple of buddies the other day. We were discussing the FBI versus Apple issue when one brought out the old “I have nothing to hide argument” when discussing government surveillance