Well Steem wants to be a real currency it should carry more goods and services to exchange with than buying other currencies. The key will come when there is a marketplace so people can buy their necesities from steemit. The big issue here is if these stores be located in a way that people are confortable to aquire. No issue with digital goods but traditional goods is a different thing altogetehr. Buying a burguer from my local store might speak volumes since ATM the store doesn't even carry debit cards.

At the moment there is no Wordpress plugin so that your upvotes can be carry on your own blog as opposed to ta steemit.com site. So the economy is very well centralized in the steemit.com domain. I would like to have a store, so having a shopify's magento's like plugin willl also be great. I would love to see these code poping up on github. ATM I dont see any bitshare (steemit father) marketplace site.