The Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Girls with curly hair long for straight shiny locks.
Girls with straight hair wish they had some curls.
Most Crypto Projects wish they had a way to appeal to and attract mainstream users.
And we seem to be wishing we were somthing else.
One way to bring an economy to Steem is to attract users and teach them how to use crypto.
We are doing that! Even after a year of little user facing growth and a market that dropped by 80 to 90%.. we have active engaged users.
If you doubt it, take a look at my recent posts asking for end-user experiences from users who learned about Crypto on Steem.
https://steemit.com/busy/@whatsup/are-you-an-end-user-that-wasn-t-into-crypto-prior-to-steem
https://steemit.com/busy/@whatsup/still-looking-for-users-that-were-not-in-crypto-prior-to-steem
These two posts received a combined total of 135 comments so far and about 75 stories. That's "At a Glance" math. I will be trying to find time to read them all tomorrow as I've had a busy week, but per usual the responses are overwhelming and really high quality.
Story after story about people who came across Steem and learned to earn, sell, hold and trade Steem and for many including myself the gateway into the world of crypto-currency, bitcoin and exchanges.
Stories from users like 
Yet some of our whales are mad/sad - smad, because they think this creates sell pressure.
Doesn't POW mining create sell pressure? Do whales in other projects complain that others are mining and possibly selling in order to cover expenses? I doubt it.
Anyway, I really hope some of you will take a look at these stories and consider what would happen if we were marketing and had a solid story about Steem.
(Also, I would love to compile some data on these responses, like how much combined steem power is held by these users, etc. anyone want to help extract some information from this mass of responses?
Anyway, just a quick note to say, sometimes we don't give the State of Steem enough credit.
