The inability to buy steem directly with usd has stopped me a few times. I just don't think people in general will really get interested until diving in is a LOT easier.
The inability to buy steem directly with usd has stopped me a few times. I just don't think people in general will really get interested until diving in is a LOT easier.
I think that the problem right now is that steem is fairly unsteady in value; I can watch my account's value change $100 between times I log in, and I use Steemit pretty frequently and I don't have that much steem.
With that said, I think part of the reason for this is that steem is tied to bitcoin because of how it is transferred to/from fiat right now. If that changes I think we could expect to see some major improvements going forward.