https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiEYYwUmIq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rlf23gAGAw

This is big news Trace Mayer is part of the core of the digital currency community. He is one of the first voices I recall listening to when I got into Bitcoin. This shows Steem now has momentum in the crypto-community similar to Ethereum.

But will people begin buying Steem like they buy ETH?

This statement by Trace is key: steem power derives value from the fact that it increases your chance of getting someone's attention. Just letting that sink in.

I am starting to think Bitcoin is like Myspace.  Open Blockchain is the real innovation here.  Maybe I am wrong but I would not be surprise to see Bitcoin muddle along while other coins Ethereum and Crypto-Equity tokens such as Steem outperform.  Maybe Bitcoin development improves but I see it highly unlikely.  These DGX tokens from Digix if scaled could be big.  We all know and trust Gold as a stable store of value.  Only time will tell but I really starting to wonder about Bitcoin being able to scale.

Thanks @craig-grant for the video. I will now be researching operation Mockingbird and looking up  the filter bubble 
Up-voted and followed

information = power
power = money

I almost wish that second video was just a joke or something... or maybe it was and I missed the part where they all laughed at the end. I couldn't bare to watch it all. Bitcoin is almost and potentially infinite...ly divisible. There will only be about 21M. There is a difference between quantity and divisibility.

I like Trace, nice guy,  Very knowledgeable.

I agree that BTC will never go to the moon and drop in price but for different reasons:

1) Miners _must_ sell to pay for their costs (most mining is now industrial scale - difficulty is way too high for hobby mining)
2) Money that goes into new bitcoins and pays for the mining costs, has to come from somewhere. Where will it come from? Not enough money coming in and the price will drop like a rock.
3) Bitcoin has it's fame and religious following that will keep it at float for a while, but not indefinitely. Improved blockchains, with real use cases, are already on the market, like Steem.

Regular people will put their money into steemit.com if and when they use it few dollars here, few there and it will add up. This is mainly waiting for a solution, where people can use their credit cards to directly buy steem/steem power/steem dollars - nobody really wants to play with bitcoin wallets.

I converted almost all my bitcoins into SP :)

Nice . Keep up sharing the good work with us @craig-grant