Now Seems Like a Great Time to Be Earning Steem… It Will Probably Get Harder Soon

With the recent downturn in prices, my steem feed seems a lot cleaner.

There isn’t that frantic energy of people grabbing at the steems with tons of posts. Instead it’s the steem lifers, those users who I always see posting a few times a day, who are dominating the feed.

I’m reading a lot of blockchain technology posts from @dragosroua,
a bunch of philosophical ideas from @rok-sivante,
cryptocurrency news from @jrcornel,

and a lot of other content from long-time steem users. Visiting steemit right now feels like opening the newspaper, I end up seeing a bunch of longform content from reputable writers.

It makes me think that now is a great time to earn and save steem. It’ll never be this easy again, I think.

Steem’s Working Class of Authors Are Set

There is a “working class” now on steem! Many authors post 1-4 times per day and earn between 10 and 100 steem each day in the process. These users are used to the ups and downs of the token and don’t get fazed.

_{This is what it feels like to be in the steem working class. source: pixabay.com}

They know that today’s $0.80 steem is tomorrow’s $2 steem and beyond. They know that this is one of the most active blockchains in the world.

The price can’t dip too low anymore, because too many investors and authors are just waiting for the chance to buy it up. Even if it went down to $0.60, I would not be worried. The reduced hype would just be another chance for true believers to get in at a good price.

The truth is, we gain new true believers every day. There’s always somebody discovering steem and falling in love.

A Year From Now Steems Will Be Harder to Come By

For one thing, the interest rate is steadily dropping. This is a slow process but eventually it goes down to around 1% per year, a lot less than today. The gradual reduction of the interest rate will make it a lot harder to earn steem by posting content.

For another, more great content creators are joining the platform. As the population of hungry steemians grows larger, there is more competition for steem.

_{the crowd is growing larger. and they all want steem. source: pixabay}

Add SMTs on top of that and it gets really crazy. There will be entire digital ecosystems joining steem and fighting for a piece of the rewards pool. At this point I think steem’s value could really hit the moon.

Get Your Steems While You Can

I am trying to stock up on steem now. Having more SP is the simplest way to become a more influential member of the network.

As a true believer, it’s a no brainer for me. SP now is good money in the future. All I have to do is keep posting good content and HODL HODL HODL.

Question: Are you taking advantage of the good steem-earning environment? How’s the posting going?