Something I’ve been waiting for so long finally shows the sign that is coming to realization. The government of Steem starting to power down the biggest stake ever happened in the blockchain, and the owner of the uncompetitive government has already completed his personal power down, and moved all the fund to an exchange account.

While doing so, realizing the ledger is transparent which such a big movement will surely trigger the public’s awareness, the government also stated a ridiculous and pathetic statement via a memo saying that such movement was due to some security concern. Secured from what? Likely not the theft, but the seemingly dangerous proposal of hardfork that is going to nullify the huge stake.

Powering down all the SP and moving all the fund to exchange, while telling the community that they are not going to run away with it, sounds exactly like those famous Wall St. investors telling the public to avoid cryptocurrency at all cost, but buying Bitcoin so hard while they still can behind the stage.

This is probably the biggest FUD I’ve ever seen in the Steem community and a handful of wise stakeholders seems starting to power down as well. Whether the government will eventually selling to crash the market or not, I don’t see any bull sign for Steem for most of the time this year, and this is gonna be a long year for Steem.

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I’ve been posting once every day for the past 1+ years since I join Steem and ditched the ordinary social media platforms. And being fully dedicated to my side project in spare time, I found some interesting habit has developed these days and that is, creating content is easier to be done on the weekdays than weekends.

I have a full-time day job from Mon to Fri while Sat and Sun are mostly free and will be my side gig days. In the normal busy(or not) working weekdays, it seems like I managed to squeeze out one hour or so for the content creating be it in the idle office hours or after work. However in the weekend when I working full force in either learning, coding, designing or whatever, I usually went all out that I don’t want to stop the momentum to do something irrelevant, like writing a post on Steem.

Well, maybe task management is the next thing I should focus on studying.

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About half a year ago my company was holding a logo design contest to revamp the company image, although I’m no graphic designer and possessing zero PS skills at all, I was interested immediately knowing that I could make use of the wonderful Utopian graphic designers force.

Hence I quickly drafted a brief requirement document about the logo design, approaching personally to whoever contributed to the Utopian graphic design categories(after filtering by confirming their works show a certain level of skill of course) if they are interested in making my logos for the contest. The best part by doing so instead of going to a talent-hiring site like Fiverr is, I can straight up pay them in STEEM instead of fiat.

In the end, I collected about 9 designs from different designers and paid approximately sum of 200 STEEM. Back in August 2018, STEEM was worth $1 so I can say that was an investment of $200 in the hope of winning the S$2000 grand prize.

I did not win the contest

Half a year later, the result was announced and I wasn’t in luck despite the 9 submissions. To make things better, the HR decided to award a fixed amount of fiat prize to the overwhelming participants, in term of cash vouchers. And I decided to sell those vouchers away and buyback STEEM. Sold the S$280 worth of vouchers for S$263 a few days later, a 6% discount was given because that was the quickest way to get rid of it.

Deposited the cash to local exchange and bought 0.0536 BTC and eventually converted it to 749 STEEM.

Verdict

In short, I turned 200 STEEM to 749 STEEM within half a year. Although you might say if I sold that 200 STEEM, hold the fiat and buyback today I would have gotten the same result. But the fact is if it weren’t for the logo contest I would not spend or cash out the STEEM anyway. Furthermore, a couple of designers has been paid and get their work recognized in the process while this shows me another use case of STEEM is possible and fun.

Stay cool and stay Steeming!

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Nothing excites me more than the market crash this morning. It went from 138B and ended up steady around 123B level, a 10% loss within one day.

Such market crash impacted me positively for only one obvious reason, that is I’m waiting for a nice entry point to top up my faith in the great Crypto. My local exchange will not honour my fiat deposit on the same day when the market was last hovering around 122B last December, by the time the fund was in, the market somehow started to bull a little bit over 130B.

I was quite pissed for a while actually. Since then the last thing I want to see on the CMC was the all-green page that everything is surging. Damn, I’m glad that I’ve developed that buy low mindset after all the FOMO lesson 2018 has taught me.

When you have strong faith in something valuable, nothing is more exciting to see the price fall hard.

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Since Steemit puts up advertisement on the trending and hot page, I figured this could be a great and straightforward way to support the company by disabling the ad-blockers in my browser. By viewing and clicking the advertisement this could bring another handsome of income stream to STINC if most of the Steemian do the same.

But is it worth it?

One must acknowledge the fact that STINC doesn’t equal to STEEM. It is just a Dapp on top of STEEM. Out of the outrages love to the Steem blockchain, one might supports whatever decision has been made by the largest stake holder of the space but that’s not how a decentralised community works.

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I’ve been waiting for this day since day 1 I started using Webflow. This is the first WYSIWYG web building tool that is so useful and well built that I’m willing to make my most expensive($192 per year) online service subscription ever! The designer tool hardly gives me any troubles at the same offering tons of benefits that is nowhere to find on other similar tools, free or paid.

Webflow actually provides a perfect way for anyone who likes to design a website without touching a single line of code. And the best thing is, the designer tool are all free to use at full functionalities. One can exploit 100% of the Webflow power before plan upgrading and thats what I did(been building my first webpage for 2 months without paying a cent). It helps the transition of visual design tool to hand coding much smoother for me too, especially after being able to export the code and trying to understand how things work behind the scene, and trying to add custom codes.

The community is active and helpful, basically any issue you encountered with the tool someone has asked before on the forum and solution was given. So far I don’t have to fire a question myself because everything is on the table.

However, the only shortcoming will be the limited functionalities. When I said limited, the comparison was with the hand coding which possibilities are endless hence this is not really a fair argument. While I’m sure the existing functionalities are more than suffice for a basic to intermediate website, custom code support in the paid plan is definitely something nice to have to add features that are not yet available on the platform.

Sometimes I imagine if one day I can hand code a full website, I would still start sketching using Webflow *because it speeds up the process dramatically and make the process much more enjoyable.

Can’t recommend Webflow enough for those beginners of web designers.

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