The coin is that big? Whoa. 🤔 Lemme see if I can buy even one. Haha.

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Don’t forget about @andrarchy !

> Its not about the money, its about getting the word out about the project and the Steem Silver Round.

Then the downvotes shouldn't matter.  You're still on the trending page.  It's *fine* if you want to think what you're doing is far more important than thousands of other accounts here, *if that's how you roll.*  With so many prominent figures holding up such bling, you'd think reaching the trending page organically should be a breeze, if it was as big of a deal as claimed to be.

> maybe if the #newsteem made it easier to get a post featured

That's what upvoting organically is attempting to achieve.  If you'd prefer to go back to a system where people were paid to look away instead of being paid to actually look, so you can pay a middleman to place your work on a page that lost the consumer's trust, so be it.  You'd have a handful of noobs here congratulating you and saying "nice post" because they think you're actually popular.  And after you're done receiving this pile of disingenuous praise, you realize not one of them actually purchased anything.  Meanwhile, nobody else saw it because they were sick of viewing ads and shit posts on the trending page.

There's a huge demand for organically popular posts reaching top slots and at the same time there's a demand for advertising space.  You know what the end game here is?  *The best of both worlds instead of two worlds colliding.*

Could not have put it better myself Ray

This post should not be downvoted at all and if #newsteem see it fit to downvote this sort of post for using bidding services to expand the reach of the message, then i'll stick with #oldsteem.

> They are 1oz of 99.999% pure silver

I'm sorry, but I only accept silver of purity of at least 99.9993% :)

I think these coins you've minted are really cool. The downvotes are entirely a response to the bid bot stacking on this post.

For the vision of Steem to work, content creators need to be able compete fairly in a level playing field for the attention and votes of stakeholders. Only through this process can we reward content based on its appeal which can hopefully lead to higher incentives to produce better content, more eyeballs, a higher price, higher still incentives to produce even better content etc.

When vote buying became normalized, this process of a potentially positive feedback loop was completely undermined. On the one hand people made a profit the more they bid on their post. On the other hand vote sellers were getting returns in line with 100% self voting. Effectively the process of transferring value over to good content creators was severed, and we were left with a broken system. This is the predominant reason why stakeholders such as myself, now armed with free downvotes, are fighting to restore honest voting over vote buying/trading as the norm. Because only then is it possible for proof-of-brain to even have a chance of working.

As you can see from smooth's response, a project like yours can gain traction and generate immense interest and support without resorting to vote buying which severely undermines the integrity of our system (even though in this case you got his interest by undermining the integrity of our system, but ignore that part for the sake of my argument :p).

Thank you for your understanding.