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A Friend of mine use to say "Money is time, in paper form".  This was several years ago.....

Today I get an email from a friend whom I've not conversed with or heard from in months.  He asked, hey have you done anything with that Steemit thing I told you about?  **NOPE**  

Well, in honesty I did do a few posts and then as I said in my comments to a user here @thefinanceguy *"I believe being here will soon become a rewarding pastime, I try to put Steemit on my last- to-do list currently, in order to prioritize living a full retired lifestyle. If I stay home and write all day, I’ll quickly run out of fun things and frugality lessons in life to write about. Thank you for stopping by. "*  .... and that was it.  My last post can be seen here: https://steemit.com/blog/@moneymustacheman/are-we-to-abolish-cash-for-digital-currency

Hence the comment from my friend several years ago, and my 'shock & awe' of what has transpired in the use of Steemit to become a "**Global Social Media Platform.**"  

See, several years ago Money *was* Time in **Paper Form**.  It seems *Times they are a changing* ... and Money (or currency) is now, and forever going forward going **DIGITAL**.  So is **INFORMATION**.  I'll explain more about this in a future article, but for a brief example let me give you one of my *real life* case studies.  Bitcoin.

The friend who emailed me today, and told me about Steemit several months ago recommended one thing for me to do when I joined Steemit.  Buy a Bitcoin.  If you knew me back then, I would have laughed and said **"Bite My Ass!"**  I'm a retired, frugal person who has no interest in your *Digital Shenanigans*, I am managing my **"Dollars"** and have no understanding of this "Digital Currency" of which you speak.  ... But I did research it - Purchased One Bitcoin (against my better judgement) and then I blogged about it in my last Post here.  

Seems he was right on 2 accounts.  One The BTC I purchased in February at the inflated cost of $992 USD is now worth  $2532.70 (at the time of this writing) as well he was right about Steemit 'Correcting It's Self' and becoming a viable social media platform to communicate to a expanding digital world audience, he said back then - "you help people solve challenging financial problems, could you do something here...."  

What I've done is not **Rocket Surgery** - I am not able to "predict the future", I only look at what has worked in the past, and bring it forward.  So I'll be writing here again on Steemit platform, perhaps once a week.  We shall see, I have some free time this summer and very few projects on my to-do-list.

I would be remiss if I did not give a thank you to @hexdek16 and please read his post here - https://steemit.com/life/@hexdek16/getting-the-word-out-for-steemit-in-the-cypto-sphere  He was my introduction to Steemit and he seems very excited about it's future possibilities.  He's the guy who told me about Bitcoin too, but I do not get or understand what he talks about with all these other digital currencies.  I own a Bitcoin.  That is enough for now.