So while I was writing a dark reply to 
I should be working harder because so many would be not wasting a second if they could switch with me and have a chance to live here! This feeling of knowing that the world is happening without me and seeing others continuing to make hundreds of dollars everyday made me realize that Steem (and Bitcoin) don't NEED us and there will always be someone willing to support such an advanced system and make money off it! Bitcoin doesnt need or care about China or ANY government since its DESIGNED to be independent of any central government! Remember guys?? That was the whole POINT of bitcoin! Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Steem cannot be manipulated and will be continuing the Network Effect! So I need to continue working and continue making money and not fall into the collective FUD which DOES effect some of us! I must admit that when Bitcoin prices crash I go on Steemit trending and I feel jealous and envious about the people making more than me but i HAVE TO SNAP OUT OF THAT!
It's a TERRIBLE viewpoint to be jealous of other people's income on steemit because it's pointless and there's plenty of people making MUCH more money but steemit is just transparent enough to actually SHOW it! People make money everyday at their jobs and we just don't see their paychecks but with steemit everything is out in the open so of course people have opinions about what they can SEE but are silent about the income they don't see in front of their face! If Facebook showed people's income on their Walls people would be making all sorts of comments about it! Also I forget that I am internet friends with some of the users on trending making these hundreds of dollars per post and I should be HAPPY for them! But I start viewing Steemit like a Minnow beginner would and I slip back into the jealous perspective of feeling poor and powerless and jealous after seeing how much money SOME users make and I have to snap out of it and you do too if you're also feeling this way! So yeah I recently felt this way as Bitcoin lost value a few days ago and I felt bad about not having done much work on steemit recently, but I snapped out of it and realized that I can make as much as I want here if I do the work! ANYONE can get a whale vote if they work hard enough so please learn from this story if you are new and JUST WORK HARD you WILL get paid and then you won't feel left out! And if you've already tried and it didn't work just accept that YOU are doing something wrong or haven't done enough to promote your post to the right people and need more time and more work! But I have too much opportunity here, both online with steemit with my 2700+ followers AND all the offline real world opportunities here in San Diego, California, USA where many people with money need my advice on how to turn thousands into millions!
I just saw this video about what $1 million US dollars can buy you around the World:
And it showed me that there are 13.55 Million Millionaires in the United States:
So within the USA we have a virtual nation of millionaires because 13.5 Million people is larger than many nations! And I cannot WAIT to join this club! And you should all be working hard to save up a few thousand dollars in steem and bitcoin, and you too will be a millionaire in the next few years, its a TICKET to the future! But remember that steem and bitcoin don't NEED us to believe in them! Steem and Bitcoin are the FUTURE and the FUTURE doesn't NEED us! People and governments come and go but Math and Science stick around and so will cryptocurrency! Crypto is like Electricity or the Automobile, they are here to stay!
It won't matter who supports bitcoin and it won't matter who is against it! Remember what happened to Bit-Torrent when governments and record industries tried to stop it? No one could stop file sharing and the same is happening with Bitcoin! We are now at a point where the big banks MAY even attempt to get governments to SHUT DOWN bitcoin like the war on drugs but this may not happen because the governments of the world KNOW it's pointless to attempt prohibition! But when centralized exchanges are shut down people will simply use decentralized exchanges and they KNOW this so the governments don't want to create a darknet marketplace for cryptocurrency itself where people are trading illegal cryptos like drugs, that would just get too ridiculous. I really do believe Chinese government officials are wanting to simply bring crypto markets down low so they could buy Bitcoin for themselves at low prices. And the talk of shutting down exchanges is just really about regulating the exchanges and preparing them pay all sorts of new crypto taxes because they KNOW how unstoppable this technology is but they have to basically shut them down and make them HAPPY to pay taxes just to get a "license" to make money again because exchanges are such easy money for creators! Governments will use Bitcoin.
Even Switzerland is accepting Bitcoin for Taxes!
https://www.coindesk.com/swiss-town-to-accept-tax-payments-in-bitcoin/
So they can't have it both ways! You can't have Bitcoin be a Ponzi Scheme but at the same time have Switzerland allowing you to pay Taxes in Bitcoin, that means the Swiss are helping a ponzi scheme! Well let's not even go there LOL Anyway it's pretty amazing that we are hearing so much fear and doubt about a technology that is simply able to send and receive money FAIRLY and the fact that it has gone up in value, it shouldn't upset people so much! If Bitcoin didn't go up in value as much as it did there would be no one interested in it and it would not be a problem for the powers that be. The intelligent people in power simply buy Bitcoin and have a stake in the future. Once lightening network and segwit wallets and exchanges are all updates we will have extremely cheap bitcoin transactions again and people will be able to move around money fast and cheap again, and bitcoin is simply waiting for this....we will have many options, bitcoin cash, litecoin, steem, but soon bitcoin transactions will have the lightening network segwit upgrade and we will have fast and cheap BTC transactions again! I hope you all understand how this will allow Bitcoin to continue to grow when people see how you can use it for microtransactions again.
Here is the Google Trends page for Bitcoin https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=bitcoin
And as you can see, the trend is STILL going strong! You should all be using THIS as a measure of how POPULAR Bitcoin is becoming and REMEMBER my old steemit posts about how there are only a few million bitcoin users worldwide but we have a few BILLION internet users! So as we keep getting more users on Bitcoin the price will just KEEP going up! And yes it can go up 1000 times from $1000 each at the beginning of the year to $1 Million dollars each in a few years! This is because we were only around 1 million active users at $1000 Bitcoin and so 1 billion active bitcoin users can get us to $1 million dollar bitcoin! And we only need to go up 200x from $5000 to get to 1 million! When we are at $10,000 bitcoin it will only need to go up 100x to get to $1 million!
This chart is from Jan 2017 and in all the places where The Internet still has a ways to reaching full penetration are the same places where Bitcoin will also be used because when people are JUST getting online they won't have any other way to accept or send money online unless they are using Bitcoin or crypto, it's just easier than trying to setup a bank account etc, and many of them will use phone credits but which only work in their region, ALSO bitcoin is a one world currency that can be used instead of having to use like 4 different currencies in some places so just the DEVELOPING world will grow Bitcoin's price even if it becomes illegal in China (which is unlikely) but there will always be someone willing to accept bitcoin and crypto!
Here is that Bitcoin Graph from Google Trends but this time showing the last 12 months
So it's popularity is stronger than ever and it's all over the world! I'm glad to see African countries like Nigeria where 
Now let us type in Steemit to the Google Trends! OH WOW look at this!
I am now going to have to do a whole POST about how Steemit is showing up as the top place searching for Steemit on Google! Hmm Ok so this is just the past 12 months, but If I show the last 5 years (showing the last year and a half since steemit came out) we see that Nepal becomes the #1 country for steemit search hmmm
I wonder if this is because the Chinese use nepal as a VPN point of entry maybe? Very interesting that Nepal likes steemit since nepal is reported to have the happiest nation on Earth with the highest numbers on the Happiness Index . Also now we can see the two spikes of steemit popularity. First spike last year when Steemit came out and in the summer the steem was issued and people went cray cray and steem went to $4 and then slowly dropped down to below 10 cents around march and then back up to $1 and $2 almost $3 and then back down to $1 and here we are! But look at the recent spike in popularity! We should be seeing a spike in the price of steem as people come to Steemit as an extra way to make money online during a Bitcoin pullback (people get used to making a lot of money fast with Bitcoin and when it slows down they seek solutions like Steemit which I believe will be reaching its "tipping" point soon! These Google Trends numbers prove it! And our Alexa Ranking is also equally impressive! So there are ALWAYS more p[eople to show Bitcoin and Steemit! There is always going to be new people who will find out about crypto! And when people find out about Bitcoin they learn about Steem and steemit! So it's just a matter of time :)
Thanks to user 
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Invest in Steem and Bitcoin because of the technology! Remember that you cannot have Blockchain without Bitcoin, and as Bitcoin goes up it takes Steem with it, but Steem can achieve a degree or independence with Steem to USD pairs on exchanges, and also our own exchange within steemit, our internal exchange simply needs Bitcoin Ethereum and Altcoins and openledger.io can maybe be integrated into the steemit wallet, don't worry it's all coming! Steemit will have it's own Fiat Steem BTC and altcoin exchange, a gateway for fiat, maybe even an adhoc exchange where local users meetup with each other? Either way we will end up with these new features and a new official steemit App and new Subreddit type "communities" and community issued assets, tokens, steemit ICOs all on the steem blockchain, even the Interface will be upgraded and look nice but now you'll all be using the steemit App like the way people use Instagram! So Steemit is about to reach it's tipping point so get your steem now while you can because steem won't always be undervalued, many large players will be learning about Bitcoin and crypto soon and when they do they always end up learning about Steemit!