I'm new to blockchain technology and cryptos (since just 2 months ago). And VERY new to Steemit (since 2 days ago). However, I've read quite a number of posts at this website. I must state here that this post is THE VERY BEST that I've read so far.
It's a pleasure to read something by someone who has experience and knowledge of the tech industry. Especially by someone who also writes very well. This is certainly of the Fee and Medium type of highly-rated articles that I had read at those sites.
One problem for me: I'd like to upvote and such, and give more than the token $0.01. But I don't know how to. Had transferred some STEEM from Bittrex to here, "powered up" (whatever that actually is - I had simply clicked on it), but my upvotes are still limited. In fact I can't even upvote here - something about "12 hours-whatever" which I don't understand.
I believe I have a rather steep learning curve ahead. Hopefully I'll get better in using Steemit, and able to upvote more "soon".
Hey, thanks for the kind words!
Don't worry about the payment thing -- I'm very new to this platform too. I don't really have any idea how the economy of it works yet, but hoping to get more clarity as time goes on. Maybe in the future there will be a "tipping" option for posts that will allow people to do something similar to what you just mentioned My payout has dropped over time (oddly enough) because apparently people's upvotes get diluted depending on how many times they click on the button too, which is kind of a strange thing. I still have no idea how it works.
My hope is to try to make high quality content that will slowly accrue value over time so I'm taking the long view on it. Hope that the post will stay relevant for quite some time since I'm not very good at following current events. :)