Hope everyone survived the HF20 experience with most of their faith in the Steem chain still intact! Thanks to everyone who made it to the last Steem Basic Income Giveaway on Words!

In a way, for me it was a nice respite from posting and commenting and all of that stuff. In many ways, the blogging side of Steem (whilst being quite enjoyable) has taken up more of my time than I care to think about. Like much of social media, I start to wonder if that is really what I want to be doing! On the other hand, the start of a new system that allows for a wider range of Dapps to connect up with Steem, that don’t necessarily rely on blogging and writing to be successful, is a promising way to help Steem get a wider adoption.

It really is my firm belief that we need to grow out of the initial blogging platform that we began with, to reach a wider audience, to reach the critical mass of adoption that we need to survive the coming crypto-culling. The time when only the truly useful and widely-adopted chains will survive, and the rest will crash away. I have high hopes that Steem can be one of these survivors, but not in it’s current form as a blogging platform.

Anyway, Steem stuff aside. This week I’m a bit curious about how you enjoyed and spent your time away from Steem during the enforced silence imposed by the lack of Resource Credits! Did you find it enjoyable, or were you suffering from withdrawal? Were you interested by the technical details of the difficulties, or were you running off to other blogging platforms?

My Question

How did you spend your week away from Steem?

My sample answer

I actually enjoyed the time off Steem! I am starting to dislike the idea of writing and posting and commenting and promoting every day, and so with this enforced break, I hope to find a better balance in my time on and off Steem. I’m curious to explore the various Dapps that are coming up, to see if they are a nice alternative to writing every day. This way, I can spend more time on writing a post over several days, rather than feeling the pressure of trying to get a post out each day!
However, the enforced time out from Steem came at a really opportune time anyway for me! I was away on work (music) in Ireland, and the place where I was staying at was beautiful and relatively remote. Which meant there was very little access to mobile internet and NO WIFI! So, even if Steem was up, I wouldn’t have been able to do much anyway!
So, my time was spent just enjoying the countryside and preparing for a concert. Meeting new people and eating lots of good food! Can’t complain really…

Rules

1. Upvote if you want, it increases the payout and then I can hopefully sponsor more people.
2. Resteem is NOT neccessary, but the more people see this, the more the people will be likely to be sponsored.
3. In the comments, answer as best as you can the questions that are posed in the "My Questions"!
4. I have added a small Steem-Bounty to the post, so that everyone who replies with a valid entry will get something back. If I give your post a small upvote, it is valid (also, subscribe to @dustsweeper for maximum benefit!).
5. I will be sponsoring as many people as this post pays out in liquid SBD/STEEM. Also I will kick in at least the required amount to round up to the full number. Winner is by random generator after a shortlisting of quality comments!

Steem Basic Income

One of the first communities that I came in contact with at the beginning of my time at Steemit was @steembasicincome. As a author starting out on your fresh new Steemit account, Steemit can be a daunting and lonely place to be. OFten, it can feel like you are posting into an abyss with no one listening and with no ability to grow out of the situation. A share of Steem Basic Income gives you a guaranteed vote on one post a day, thus giving you a small but over time cumulative support to your account to help grow you out of your initial wilderness!

With this post, I want to help sponsor people who might not even have the spare 1 STEEM that is required for registration. So, when this post pays out, I will sponsor people depending on the payout of this post. Basically, I will round up the SBD payout from this post and then that will be the number of people I will sponsor. (So, if the payout is 2.3 SBD, I will sponsor 3 people). OF course, this is not simply an altruistic move, as the sponsor of a Steem Basic Income share also gets a share, so it is a great way to help others whilst helping yourself!

Last week's winners

The last post paid out 2.002 SBD and 0 STEEM in liquid earnings. So, that would make 2 shares.

The winners by random draw are:

@dollarsandsense

@mmunited