Steemit is a great platform as it can be used to monetize content through the proof-of-brain.

But can Steemit used also for paying possible services or goods?

Why not? I experienced a first trivial transaction and I will explain how in the next lines.

As I'm a collectionist of old coins -I mean real coins not cryptos :-) - and I bloged about it here and here

One of the people that I follow on Steemit which is @robmenzies saw my articles about the old coins I collect and told me that he also had some old coins. Which are the ones you see below.

I was interested to buy them and give him some steem coins for those old coins.

But how could we make the transaction ? He is living in Doha, Qatarr and I live in Italy. So we agreed on trusting each other and making this transaction based only on trust. So I would give him half of the steem coins and he would send me a note that he in the meanwhile had already sent me the coins through ordinary mail.

Finally, we did the transaction and I got my old coins and @robmenzies got his steem coins.

And he was so kind as to include some more coins..

...and banknotes as you can see below.

This case shows how steemit is enabling a communication channel which can be used for exchanging ideas, upvotes, comments but also value and valuable goods and services.

In this case however, me and @robmenzies used our good will and mutual trust to make the transaction but in order for this usecase to be a common thing on the platform a better combination of software and hardware tools should be done.

If there could be finded a way to make exchanging of goods and services on the steemit platforms as easy as delegating voting power, then steemit may really have a bright future.

..and until the next post, have fun :-)