I’m not exactly sure how I discovered steemit. I was probably googling something and one of the results was from steemit.com. What immediately caught my eyes were the dollar signs. I was intrigued.
You see, I’ve been making a living through online income since 2008. I’ve sold millions of dollars’ worth of ships through this ugly website. I made tens of thousands of dollars through Google Adsense. I sold several websites for a nice sum at flippa.com. I’ve sold hundreds of millions of pesos worth of real estate properties using Facebook Ads. I was there when you could actually make good money through freelance websites.
And I’m not saying this just to brag. Okay, maybe a little. But the point is that I have enough experience in making money online and that makes my say count. Agreed? Good.
I knew about bitcoin when it was just a few cents each. I could have bought tens of thousands of bitcoins back then without breaking a sweat. But now that ship has sailed. I still haven’t forgiven myself for missing out on the chance to be extremely wealthy.
However, when I saw those dollar signs on those steemit posts, light bulbs lit up, gears turned. I was truly excited after quite a while of staying away from online income opportunities. Being a content creator, I knew this could be really big. For the first time in a long while, I was in fact excited.
But what does that have to do with upvote bots and why they are good for the steemit community? Patience dear reader. We’ll get there.
First, we need to discuss something basic, like value and where it comes from. I know it sounds boring but bear with me.
Let’s Talk About Value, Baby
If you’re willing to pay for something, that thing is valuable to you. Pretty simple right? Now when a lot of people want the same thing, that thing becomes more valuable.
In July 2010, bitcoin was worth $0.08. Nobody wanted it. So, it wasn’t very valuable back then. It was very risky to buy bitcoin during that time because you’re not sure if it will still have any value left the next day.
You probably know what happened next but I’ll tell you anyway. More and more people eventually adapted bitcoin and its value increased beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Now I want one and I can’t afford it.
But what does this have to do with upvote bots? Jeez, you’re so impatient. I’m getting there.
When somebody first discovers steemit, what he’ll look at naturally are the dollar signs and the values after it. Wow, these posts are making money! I bet I could create crappy content like those easily.
I personally can come up with shitty content in just a few short minutes.
But when you’re a newbie, you’ll soon discover that it’s not so easy to earn as much as those who are in the trending page. Even if you spend a week on the bestest content you can come up with, no spelling mistakes, no typos, no grammatical errors, and something that actually is worth reading, it still won’t be worth squat unless someone with a lot of SP upvotes you.
Heartbreak. Depression.
THEN . . .
You find out that a lot of the posts on the trending page actually got there by buying upvotes. You get mad because you know your work is an order of magnitude better than the garbage that’s populating the trending page. You get frustrated.
But nobody seems to care. Still, you can't give up. This is your greatest online discovery. You will make money from steemit or die trying.
AFTER THAT . . .
You try buying SBD. Just a few at first to test things out with the bid bots.
All of a sudden . . . RAW, UNTAMED POWER!
BOOM! You’re on the trending page.
You buy more SBD and you work on creating more content.
Then you do the math. You realize that with enough starting SBD capital and with the help of upvote bots, it can actually be very profitable. You earn SBD and SP. You reinvest the SBD you earn on buying upvotes and save the SP. When you run out of liquid SBD, you power down and use the steem to upvote your posts again gaining more SP as you go.
See where this is going?
This is actually what some smart long-time steemians have been doing. They keep it under the radar. They upvote themselves using bid bots but not too much. Just enough. They don't want to appear greedy. They don't want to get flagged.
But you know what? BUYING UPVOTES IS ACTUALLY GOOD FOR STEEM!
The Great Equalizer
If you’re a plankton, and you don’t want to buy a lot of steem to power up, the seemingly natural thing to do is either beg the steem deities OR comment spam all the high-paying posts.
But with upvote bots, the playing field becomes leveled. You can simply buy SBD and upvote your own posts and see them rise to the trending page without having to ceaselessly pray to the steemit gods.
This is good for Steem because more money from the outside is coming in. Let’s see the benefits of upvote bots:
- Newbies are given the power to be heard and earn their money back plus some profit while doing so.
- This generates more interest on the platform and more demand for SBD/Steem.
- More demand for SBD and Steem will increase the price.
- Increased price will make Steem more attractive to investors.
- The wealth becomes more widely distributed because even new members can have a bigger piece of the pie as long as they invest.
- More distribution means a more stable currency.
- A more stable currency attracts more new investors and increases the value of Steem even more.
No, I don’t think Steem will replace bitcoin by 2021. But I KNOW we can all do something to help increase the value of Steem. And it's not starting a flagging war.
If you’re new here but know in your heart of hearts that you are a high-quality content creator, I encourage you to use the upvote bots. Just be smart in using them. Start small and learn the ropes first before spending bigger amounts. I started with 
Still not convinced that this will work? That’s alright. You’re welcome to sit there and watch my wallet grow.