I wrote about a method of delivering ads way back when bidbots were destroying, things. I wanted to see the bots stop voting for actual content, and start voting for ads published in a subsection where the publishers compete for top slots, then the content producers choose a couple ads before publishing actual content, then take a share of the revenue. It's far more complex than that, but I don't think that will happen now. There would be a better approach anyway, not using paid votes. I just wanted those damn votes to be used for something useful. That was a wasteful era.

Tipping I don't like since one could tip forever with votes. It's not uncommon for an online personality to have 10000 followers who would tip. Do the math. How much Hive does it take for a vote worth 2 cents. That wouldn't be expensive. So then multiply those tokens by 10000 followers. You'll discover it doesn't actually take too many successful personalities to outpace inflation. Tipping is basically buy one token and that token then gets sold. It's tough to say if that would ever create a steady demand for the token.