A brief story to explain why I fall in love with Steem platform.
Back in 2007 I opened a website to talk about rugby, I was at the very beginning of my PhD so I had plenty of time(?!).
That website was basically just a blog talking about Italian rugby with a section of results and statistics of the main championships.
At the time there was really few people talking about rugby in Italy so it seemed a great idea to me. It turned out that it was not.
All the experience was an epic fail, and to be fair it was The experience that made me aware of how Internet actually works, the ads, the SEO and so on..
There was a caveat to all this, since I was not so stupid to think to be able to maintain the blog alone I searched for passionate people to help me with the publishing schedule.
I eventually found someone who was really a good writer and very passionate about rugby. I paid him at the beginning and, incredibly, he didn't run with the money, but he just started writing and do all his best to make it happen.
At that time I started to think at a method to pay him that was related with the website earnings and with the quality of his work. But how to measure quality? The only thing I was able to do was to count the number of articles and to split the advertisement income to reflect the amount of work he was doing. But this would have created a huge amount of meaningless articles that no one care about (yes like the whole Internet).
To make a long story short I was missing Steem.
Steem allows you to do exactly what I was aiming for. When my crypto-guru friend suggested me to mine Steem, at the very beginning of the blockchain, I was not really listening. I wasn't really into this altcoin stuff, I didn't catch the innovative bit of bitshares and there was only space for bitcoin in my heart.
Not to mention that I just married three times in different countries (and with the same woman!), and that same wonderful woman was already sick of my beloved Jupiter Miner that just shut up a few months ago. It was not a good idea to talk about crypto currencies since we just had our baby, priorities first.
I choosed to stay out of crypto stuff for a while, but these things are too interesting to me, and at the end she ended up telling me to do whatever I want (hopefully), especially when I explained her how much we have lost to not be a part of Steem since the beginning.
But the moral of the story is: you should always listen to your crypto-guru friend.
So, thank you Sigve!