I have purchased coffee with Bitcoin, even bought a T-Shirt on Openbazaar but these transactions all involved an interface with the "real" world. Sure there is a digital or online aspect to the commerce but the goods and services traded are part of a normal nation state economy. The vendors probably all converted their Bitcoin to Euro/Dollars straight away, the post man who delivered my T-Shirt was paid in Euros.
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Steemit
I came to Steemit 4 months ago to start earning digital currency.
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Today I had the realisation that I have been regularly spending digital currency since I got here. I have spent over 100 dollars promoting posts, this strategy has not been giving me the reward I was hoping for so I stopped recently but again yesterday there was a post I felt had been missed and I wanted to give it a kick. Without realising what I was doing I transferred some Bitcoin to my account then it hit me.
I have been fairly regularly spending Digital currency thanks to Steemit.
Steemit created a service (post promotion), a need that I could only pay for in digital currency. I have also been earning with my posts so this means that Steemit effectively is a fully fledged online economy where you can earn and spend money, Digital Money.
What other Digital currency can say the same? The majority of the transactions in every other digital currency have not been for trade, or regular everyday interactions but for speculation. They have not paid for a need generated by an online economy.
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Let the Digital Currency Revolution begin!
As the Steemit Economy grows, more services will be offered, more people will earn digital currency. Steem and the pegged Steem dollar may become the currency of choice for online trade.
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