I have spoken at numerous public events and panels about Cryptocurrency, and have been asked about Steemit often. Now let me be clear, I am in no way part of Steemit Inc, but have been involved from June last year with this community and have loved it since the start.
Picture of me in Durban
I have had two very clever guys to thank for introducing me to the Steemit world, 
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I loved this so much that through my company, QuadroIT we sponsored the first SteemSaturday event last year in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a great success, and while it is nowhere as big as the annual Steemfest, the intent is that more of these should be held across the world. We still would like to see this happen and people pick up the baton. Our goal is to see one of these a week across the world every weekend!
MC at SteemSaturday
Why is Steemit so amazing for crypto
Now to the single biggest reason I think Steemit is so amazing. It is simple, so many people are earning and holding crypto tokens that would NEVER have done so. It is in a very simple and non-technical way introducing people to the brilliance of cryptocurrency. You blog, and abracadabra you own crypto tokens. Beautiful 