RE: Rags to Riches

It's good stuff and I'm bullish on the ecosystem and the developments. I can see a clear path for the ecosystem to really thrive. I don't know if that path is the same one that will be taken but it will be interesting.

I think my main concern is that there are really only a couple creators that were able to make any significant gains and earnings within these ecosystems. Even if spread across all these STEEM clones / forks and everything at arms length associated with it the road is very rocky.

There have only been a couple paths to success on here and it is such a small percentage of the people who have arrived here.

@scottcbusiness just did a breakdown of his monthly earnings and having a significant Twitter and YouTube following with high quality videos and spread across all these clones it was basically $85 for the month. We aren't complaining necessarily about the earnings and we are going to keep digging up every little bit we can but in my opinion this whole ecosystem hasn't gotten close to its potential and I would say there are less than 100 people getting a decent return out of all this between bloggers, curators, witnesses.....etc.

Again a lot of good things have happened here but can it become what it truly has the potential to be? It can do the gaming, DeFi, lending ......etc. It should be able to fund itself and promote itself and be self sustainable. The ramps to the BSC and Polygon are critical. HIVE and HBD need to be tokenized on all these other chains.

Lots of positives but tough for new users to grasp everything that is happening here. I have been here since 2016 and in crypto since 2013 and I don't know everything going on.