There is this question I have been struggling with for a while and in the beginning the answer was clear but now I have been wondering a bit lately. I do want to make abundantly clear that I really love Steem and have been powering up all I could since I joined almost a year ago.

Will SMT's be everything we hope for ?

Why do I ask this question?

well, Steem has now roughly 60k accounts and most are just normal users that are called plankton or minnow. Only the top 1 or 2 % have more then 500 sp. This means that the investment in the blockchain is quite limited.
Now on Steem we talk a lot about SMT and debate how good it will be. There are a lot of moons and lambos going around in the posts and comments but does anyone in the "outside world" actually know about the Smart Media Tokens?

Because if no one knows they exist or will exist then how will this attract investors and how will this generate the price boost that is so often expected with SMT's coming out.

All the projects like Hive account@dtube, dlive, Hive account@steemhunt, Hive account@buildteam, Hive account@actifit, Hive account@utopian-io Hive account@appics and some well know steemians that support or write about them a lot like Hive account@exyle or Hive account@flauwy and even Hive account@ned those are really great but are we not just shouting to eachother?

Should we not be spreading the word outside of the steem community

There are some that really do and try to get more investment (either time or money) inflow on Steem
I have just seen a project like Hive account@oracle-d from Hive account@starkerz and Hive account@anarcotech or one of the first big examples to go out and promote in the real world like Hive account@sndbox.

But are these going to be enough?

I personally try and promote Steem on the weekly meetup we host with Hive account@cryptoworldzug here in the Crypto Valley but these always seem like trying to put out a forest fire by throwing a glas of water in the woods.

Are you promoting Steem to the outside world or are you just taking out as much as you can get while it lasts and do not count on SMTs boosting the Steem value?

Is anyone else having these thoughts or is this just me?

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