If you have Netflix you need to find the season 2 episode with Bryce Dallas Howard in it. I think that it kind of touches on what you were speaking about the potential of steam in a nightmare boat up boat down type of society. It's very interesting. Also, I'm with you on the Nigerian people thing. As a matter of fact I recently befriended a Nigerian person who I am song riding with over the internet. I'm trying to talk him into joining steemit. I already got him talked into joining musicoin.org. I actually have a song that he wrote on the sound right now that I covered. Lastly, go Amish!

"Hot as balls" LOL

My first immediate thought was "I guess balls are really hot."

Just for that chuckle, you get my upvote of love, dear.

#onelove #dtube

Young lady!!!  You are killing it with all these votes!   I am so excited and so happy that you've found your niche! I introduce a lot of Nigerian people in @thefreshfive... so I personally don't think the take up is super low, but I guess that's all perspective. 

Steem is not super decentalised at the moment, and I'm super okay with that.  It means that decisions can be made quickly (pretty much one user can make or break witnesses in a second) and the good whales can take action on fraudsters and shysters.  Decentralised is great, but it can be manipulated and in these early days I personally think it's better for experienced stern hands to steer the ship instead of just everybody having an equal (but also potentially equally uninformed) say.

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I honestly just stumbled across this channel. I honestly thought this was just gonna be another generic review. But I gotta say, well done. Very well done. You've raised some very valid points. :)

I am so grateful that we can get someone who cares for us Nigerians and speaks for us. Thanks dear for your concern. Nigeria is a very special country and we've got a lot of experiences to share with you guys on the steem blockchain. Its quite challenging for us here to steem because of the so many challenges we face: irregular electricity, poor mobile network,  expensive nature of things around. Well, i think we are ready to make changes in our community and will get there. Kudos!  @bethweathcraft

Upvoted ☝ Have a great day!

How can you have true decentralization, when nobody knows about it?

Even in the early days of steem it appears people where given steem when you created an account, which was an attempt to spread the wealth.

However, this only meant people created hundreds of accounts each which in turn put the power back into the hands of the few.

Fast forward, 18 months and we manage the multi-accounts a lot better and we have over 100K active users on Steemit.

So this is still going to take time.

Now those whales might sell down over time (a long time) and eventually lose some of that power. But it will take time and I'm still optimistic this will happen.

And every time a 'new' app is created for Steem it makes the platform more decentralized.

Steemit benefits from being first, but that doesn't mean the masses will continue to support that platform in the long run. (It already looks like myspace, when you compare it to the alternatives)

Perhaps the 'new' Steemians prefer other ways to earn money from the Steem Blockchain. 

You can't realistically expect something to be decentralized on Day 1, give it a few more years.

And it'll only truly be decentralized when the masses discover it.

Build your platform and get the word out to as many people as you can and work towards something, rather than worrying about the whales and how they control things. 

They will sell down when the price is right.

#### Consider this

If all the STEEM rewards went to one person, it would only take 1 day to make a WHALE.

So we could be making a whale per day, but it doesn't happen like this does it?

It is distributed amongst the people, and continues to be spread far and wide.

If you can't see where this is going then you've closed your mind, and it's preventing you making the changes needed to correct the course.

Make your app.

#fight4steem

I am sure that the Nigerians that you have met through Steemit will succeed in growing their population, there are so many young Nigerians with a lot of talent and skill, who struggle to make a living online because they are often banned from other online opportunities because of a lot of scams coming from Nigeria. Seems to be a rule of just blacklisting everybody even the innocent. So hopefully they succeed.

I also agree with your views are decentralisation, if everything was controlled by steem then it would no longer be decentralised.

Snow in the desert.. That's so absurd. I'm also not that society. Remember spending 3 hours in the toilet at a rooftop party due to anxiety. Yeah branching out is so dope @bethwheatcraft. I really never expected the Nigerian community to draw your attention. Sometimes it can be difficult to use the internet in the Third World. Appreciate your video lady..

Perhaps Dan Larimer is creating competition to challenge the notion of decentralization on the Steem network. Hopefully this one will be decentralized for real. But what a bout Bitshares @bethweatcraft. Would you consider it also not truly decentralized? 

Good one! There will always be a few with vast resources who can do what they want, ..for now. There is always a bigger Whale lurking in the depths.

Your thinking is really good @bethwheatcraft 
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Tears flowing down my cheeks, a sign of a gladden heart. @bethwheatcraft, you are a rare gem, true to your word. I'm already working on a project and will private chat you co-author the post on steemit still on the efforts to bring more women to lime light. Thanks for this post again, you have made me proud, hoping to get the needed support to embark on women Sensitization about steemit revolution. Holla at your family.

I hope you get some desert snow.
I recently started following @etemi from Nigeria. She won open mic with a cover of 1+1 that made me cry tears of joy...4 times...

https://steemit.com/openmic/@etemi/1-1-cover-of-beyonce-by-etemi-steemit-openmic-week-72-entry

Thanks for pointing out the Nigerian Steem community.  I spent 5 formative years a few countries over at a mission clinic in Northern Ghana, so I'm really hopeful that decentralization tech can help struggling people in that area break free of at least some of what's been holding them back.

I think BitShares is much more decentralized than Steem, and hopefully EOS will be even better given its distribution approach.  Steem centralization is really pretty bad in my opinion, but that centralization has enabled bootstrapping accessibility to onboard people into the blockchain movement more efficiently than any other network I've seen.  I hope Steem's issues can be resolved, but regardless I think for many it's a crucial stepping stone to more sustainable and decentralized networks.

Hello @bethwheatcraft :).... 

On behalf of Myself, all Nigerians on Steemit and many others that will join this great Steemit platform,we all say a big thank :) you for your heartfelt concern...And also a big thanks to all that have commented to this post...Please @bethwheatcraft! i have a great plan towards steemit that i will like to share with you....Chat me up on steemit chat    @tkenneth....God Bless Us All :)

@bethwheatcraft you are now My
> STEEM CNN. 

Thanks for showing love to my fellow County men. 
 Creating their awareness is awesome. 
I will follow up on their fight for steem. 
M.M.M was also Part of the ponzi scheme that wrecked alot of live savings from crypto enthusiasts who engaged in it. 
So far I ve introduced over 10 students from the university I'm studying from to steemit. 
All has opened an account but ONLY few intro post written yet, while creating an account for others ended in futility. 
I really enjoyed today's video post and I ll reserved my comment on the whale rambling, hahaha, lolz😂
I also haven't slept well for 37hrs now, I'm also heavy this pain at the left part of my head. It hurts alot but I'm steemilized by the benefits of steeming. Lolz😃
Try to rest your head ma'am
The post I did yesterday and you wish it got a good visibility. Just few hours ago, a whale curated it with a big payout. 
I'm glad your wish for the post happened. 
Miracle do happen😂. 
# HAPPY STEEMING MUMMY SOFIA 👌👌😉😉

Well done! Glad you are still plugging away, you are excellent at this!

great explanation..waiting for your 2nd part video.