Steemit is a great platform as it can be used to monetize content through the proof-of-brain.
But can Steemit used also for paying possible services or goods?
Why not? I experienced a first trivial transaction and I will explain how in the next lines.
As I'm a collectionist of old coins -I mean real coins not cryptos :-) - and I bloged about it here and here
One of the people that I follow on Steemit which is saw my articles about the old coins I collect and told me that he also had some old coins. Which are the ones you see below.
I was interested to buy them and give him some steem coins for those old coins.
But how could we make the transaction ? He is living in Doha, Qatarr and I live in Italy. So we agreed on trusting each other and making this transaction based only on trust. So I would give him half of the steem coins and he would send me a note that he in the meanwhile had already sent me the coins through ordinary mail.
Finally, we did the transaction and I got my old coins and got his steem coins.
And he was so kind as to include some more coins..
...and banknotes as you can see below.
This case shows how steemit is enabling a communication channel which can be used for exchanging ideas, upvotes, comments but also value and valuable goods and services.
In this case however, me and used our good will and mutual trust to make the transaction but in order for this usecase to be a common thing on the platform a better combination of software and hardware tools should be done.
If there could be finded a way to make exchanging of goods and services on the steemit platforms as easy as delegating voting power, then steemit may really have a bright future.
..and until the next post, have fun :-)