It's time I share
Look, it's easy to get all hyperbolic with STEEM. There's a reason for this though: despite the drop in price and thus post value, STEEM's for real. WIthout further ado, I wish to present to you the actual events of the past six weeks using this novel social network.
Week One: Let's give this thing a try....
So I made two posts at first. One about a novel blockchain (which I'd still like to pursue) and another about steemit itself, which I'll be refreshing soon. It's impressive to see the front end evolve as quickly as we have.
Week Three: No shit? That is like, real money?
Well, it took me a second to wrap my head around really, and of course some extra time to really confirm by withdrawing. But, fact is , it is truly real money. I was able to pull it out of the bank like this:
it was of course at this point that people around me are like..... "well ain't that sumpin' "..... and indeed, it is sumpin!
Week Four & Five: I begin to understand
Steemit is the ideal mechanism for:
- Propogating Cryptocurrency
- Creating an online community in a sustainable way
- Showing off the features of graphene
- ....and hell, making a few bucks by blogging, kinda
- Company hired to do work on steemit-related projects & graphene-ness
Week SIx: The steemit meetup, and the dawn of 
- Trip to Cambodia!
- Begin working on steemitcity.
Please, allow me to cut to the chase:
In six weeks, monetized social media powered by the STEEM blockchain has literally changed how I live. Here's what I am doing when I get back to Vietnam:
Meeting up with my girlfriend
Helping her get her passport set
Buying a "Honda Win" or similar
Riding to Saigon
Eating Kongguksu
Riding from Saigon to Siam Reap, with stops in Can Tho and Phnom Phenh
Taking tons of photos on the way, videos too
Making the best possible guide for riding the Ho Chi Minh trail North to South, and posting it on Steemit!
Not a perfect community/codebase on Steemit, either: As we all know the code and the social code need some work, and I say this without any shame at all: