Holy crap. Tournaments in Steem Monsters has really revved the engine.

And the tournament feature has not even been truly released yet! This is just us racing shopping carts around the parking lot while we prepare for Fast and the Furious. Speaking of which, don't worry. When tournaments comes out for real, it's gonna be awesome. Maybe I'm biased, but I think it's gonna be really sweet.

You'll see.

In the meantime, it's been insane seeing all these tournaments everywhere!

Yesterday (Saturday), my wife--

Wait. Hold on.

First, let me explain something about my wife. She is the perfect example of someone who is not interested in nerd-talk and techno-babble. Sure, she'll go see a Marvel or Star Wars movie. But she's not gonna obsess over timelines or post-credit scenes. She's not going to preach blockchain to her friends, and she's not going to bother trying to understand seeds, private keys, or filling out a KYC.

In other words, she's not a crypto-maniac.

Don't get me wrong. She's extremely intelligent. She's informed. She'll follow crypto news and tell me what's what. But overall, she'd rather spend her time doing other things.

Now enter Steem Monsters.

She hasn't even made an #introduceyourself post on Steem. Heck, she hasn't even made a single post at all. She's not particularly interested in blogging. Will she start posting stuff at some point? Sure. It's just not high on her priority list. When she has something she wants to say, she'll say it.

But when it comes to playing Steem Monsters? Get outta the way.

She spent...count them...1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Twelve.

TWELVE HOURS

She spent 12 HOURS playing back-to-back tournaments. I have no idea how many she did. But she didn't stop. Every time I turned around, she was in a different tournament.

Most of the time, she was screaming profanities at the monitor.

If our youngest kid were to ask mommy what's wrong, I'm pretty sure she would raise her hands to the heavens shrieking "REVERSE SPEED, DAMMIT!" The dog was scared. He didn't understand the emotional roller coaster ride that his human master was experiencing.

The point is this: my beautiful, smart, amazing non-technical, non-nerdy, non-crypto wife went completely BEAST MODE. She's hands down better at me than playing the game. Guaranteed. She'll say otherwise, but it's true. We've even played a bunch of one-on-one challenge matches, and she annihilates me like it's nothing.

Not only that, she discovered the peakmonsters website. She's using the Keychain browser extension. She's making transactions with Steem currency on a daily basis.

People talk about "widespread adoption" all the time, like it's this futuristic Utopia that will happen around the same time as Starfleet Command. But waitaminute now.

Steem Monsters is making it happen right friggin' now.

Next time you battle @raynie, let that be a wake up call. The future is now.

She's not here to judge the quality of your post or compare digital portfolios. She's here to kick your @$$. And she's using blockchain technology to do it.

2019 should be fun.