Can Steemit Inc. airdrop few million Steem through Coinbase Earn project or Blockchain.com to get a big publicity.

I have earned 250 steem through Coinbase and Blockchain.com. Basically, I got $50 airdrop in Stellar, $10 BAT, $10 in EOS, $3 ZEC and $3 0x just watching few videos and answering the quiz in Coinbase. I also got $25 equivalent of XLM through blockchain.com. I sold all of them to buy 200 Steem and powered them to delegate to projects (e.g. @steemhunt).

All these coins are ranked above Steem. Either they are better in usage than Steem or they have better marketing strategy. I believe that it is the later.

STINC used to reward 5 Steem to new users when joining Steemit.com. Later it reduced the reward to mere 0.5 Steem. However, STINC still has 70M Steem in its purse. Powering down them and selling them to the open market will look like a shady scheme and sound straight unethical. Basically, these steem are insta-mined for the purpose of the development of the protocol. These Steem are also supposed to be delegated to many projects to make Steem distribution decentralized.

However, if STINC can team up with coinbase and blockchian.com to distribute 10M Steem to new users for watching tutorials about Steem. It can help to spread Steem's goodies to the world.

Mostly, crypto-sphere is splashed with misinformation about Steem such as very high inflation (e.g. 100% a year), project is dead since @dan has left, whales controlling the reward etc.

This airdrop will provide a chance for STINC to clarify all these doubts through well made tutorials. It will also help to reach out new investors and users. Some of these airdropped Steem will be sold to the market, however, price will be compensated through the marketing and spread of words. It will another method to distribute Steem to many, many new users.

Moreover, if we look into the projects such as 0x, BAT, ZEC and XLM, their developers and executives are well connected to Coinbase. Some of the devs of these project are ex-employees of coinbase or friends of coinbase founders. Connection matters. STINC can reach out ex-coinbase employees or hire them to reach out there. Also, given the big image, @ned can personally connect with coinbase founders for the inquiry.

It is unfathomable that a coin such as Steem with large followings, exciting developments and real use-cases, struggles against its peers which have basically better connections and marketing strategies.

I remember I wrote a blog earlier that Steem has better chance than XRP or EOS to be enlisted in coinbase since the later are ICOs and have regulatory issues. Somebody mention that it will be 0x next in Coinbase since it is founded by ex-coinbase employees. I did not trust him believing that coinbase had a fair process for adding a new coin.

Here we are! 0x with very limited use cases (even founders have doubt about their own project) is the first to be listed in Coinbase besides major coins such as ETH, LTC or BCH. Connection matters, STINC or community have to be active in this matter.

You can use my referral to get upto $50 equivalent XLM: https://coinbase.com/earn/xlm/invite/7nkqj3c6

Cheer!

Disclaimer: This opinion is not a financial advice, it my personal perspective and opinion. Please seek professionals for financial decisions.

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@riseofth
Cryptominer since 2013, occasional trader and tech blogger