One of the biggest issues with the Steem blockchain was the 7 day payment window. This limited content to being upvoted only during that period. Many content creators, especially those who feel their content is timeless, such as educational materials, cited this as a major turn-off regarding Steem. It is difficult to argue this point.
Many wanted this changed at the base layer. I saw a number of discussions pointing to the fact that Steemit needs to change the code on this. While this did not seem to gain any traction, it is a worthy conversation.
Or should I say it was.
The solution is now here. One of the things I noticed about this blockchain, if there is a problem, the knee-jerk reaction is to have Steemit change it. What often ends up happening is a innovative team gets together and solves it.
Enter Steem Bounty. They stepped up to the plate and created an interface that enables people to get paid on their posts eternally. As long as the Internet remains, or even mesh networks, a post is eligible for upvotes.
They put up a post about Steem Forever. This is the latest innovation to the Steem blockchain that solves a major challenge and really makes the entire ecosystem more valuable.
The concept is very simple.
One takes the url of the post and replaces steemit or busy with steem-bounty. Or, to make it easier, there is a nice conversion bar on their site.
https://steem-bounty.com/services/forever
To try it out, here is an older post of mine that is passed the 7 day window.
After running it through the link converter, this is what it looks like.
We now see the ability to upvote posts and comments. I did not try it but it appears the entire post is now "alive". This means those who are apt to leave a lot of comments are now eligible to receive rewards.
Ironically, the post I chose discussed 
Talk about synchronicity.
Here is the link to the original post announcing Steem Forever.
https://busy.org/@knircky/we-are-launching-a-new-service-called-steem-forever
Each week, we see new additions to the Steem blockchain that improve the entire ecosystem. As always patience is required. There are a lot of very intelligent people working on different things that we discuss on a daily basis. The evolution of this blockchain is underway. Each new feature makes what is here a bit more attractive.
That is how growth takes place.
Steemians should be in it for the long haul.
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