I like your ideas. A referral system.

What you've proposed sounds similar to bitshare's approach, including the buyout. I feel like I can envision what you're proposing.

I've been reading through the platform proposals lately. I think there's opportunity to marry this idea with some other ideas, kind of tie them together.

• Proposal 99 for BAT integration might allow for you to tie referral rewards into a recurring stream. https://peakd.com/me/proposals/99
• Dapplr has a mention of a referral system using SMT's #10 here: @dapplr/dapplr-first-design-based-app-being-built-on-hive

Definitely a great discussion to have going. I hope this response provides value to your efforts.