Woot! I really appreciate all the support I've been getting , and while I may have lost a few followers because of the topics I've focused on lately - they've been replaced by a flood of new users :)
As of midday on the 28th of November my stats are at:
Followers 600 , Posts 1800 , Following 993 , Steem Power : 6531.735 , Rep 65
This table is thanks to steemwhales.com and it shows my above average follower growth over the last week or so - mostly brand new users coming via my pizzagate posts
Checkout steemwhales.com for more info
Strangely I think I'm more motivated by and proud of my growing reputation here, I just cracked rep 65 recently and I'm making progress towards 66!
Via @blueorgy's steem.cool
My recommended follows for November 2016
I'm going to start a new tradition, every time I do a milestone post (rare-ish) I'll strive to include a list of recommended follows and an example post for each. I don't want anyone to feel left out or offended - don't forget I'm already following almost 1000 people here and its just not practical (or useful) to list them all :P
@aggroed - Great short form regular meme the news posts (+news, tech, pizzagate)
@krnel - Lots of original writing across a broad range of deeper topics, for example: What Value Do We Assign Human Life?
@dylansaccoccio - Packed full of knowledge from deep down the rabbit hole, for example : The Price of Passage (The Seventh Chapter; Part II)
@son-of-satire - Only recently on my radar, great pieces on pizzagate and more - for example: How Steemit Could Save the World
@inphiknit - Recently schooled me about the myth of Yisrael = "Is-Ra-El" with Regarding The Claim That Israel Is A Word Encoding Egyptian gods. 🌀 (Is-Ra-El.) (+ drops knowledge of sacred geometry)
@dailybitcoinnews - Sacred geometry artwork, esoteric knowledge and symbolism breakdowns, for example : An Esoteric Journey into the Symbolism of the Gnostic Cathar Movie; The NeverEnding Story (1984)
@krystle - My partner, mother of my kids and up-and-coming fiction author putting out content like : The Kingdom of Almain 🏰 Valcanne's Guide to Keltorin
@titusfrost - Another fellow truthseeker, has done great work on pizzagate lately for example: PizzaGate - The Documentary: Podesta's Emails lead to Pedophilia Involving Obama, Clintons, DOJ and the DNC
Musings on the future of the platform
I've been here since June, it kinda feels like longer then 4 months already.
In this time I've watched the platform change a lot, as we try to nail the right balance of incentives/disincentives to turn steemit into the ultimate decentralized blockchain-based publishing platform and social network.
Most importantly - thanks to the repeated censorship by reddit, twitter and even 4/8chan I think more people are waking up to the value of having their work on a blockchain instead of a centralized database.
We have more major changes on the horizon, and I feel that with those changes in mind Steem is currently seriously undervalued . I've felt that way for a while, but now we have fundamental changes to the inflation rate and lockin period it's even more obvious we shouldn't have dumped this far..
I can't promise prices will only go up from here, as we still clearly have some bad-actors in the system that just want to dump it all and move on as soon as they can.
This is a good thing, instead of hanging around dumping for 2 years we can be rid of them in 3 months and they'll redistribute their Steem to a new generation of mini-whales :)
Price really shouldn't be the focus anyway - at the end of the day, even if I never got another vote again and/or price went to $0.0001 - I would still be here posting anyway, just like I have been on twitter and facebook for free for years :)
Here's to my next 600 followers! :D