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 
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
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
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 :-)