Hello SPIers, today we explore the idea of a HIVE web browser. There has been lots of talk over the past few months about the DHF and alot of people are not happy with the way it is being used.
All this talk about DHF really kicked off after a proposal for a HIVE rally car got approved. In the past 4 months, the HIVE rally has cost the community $192k. Maybe it's over my head but I dont see how spending this amount on a rally car comes back to HIVE. From my pea brain, it looks like HIVE is funding a team to travel and race around Europe living their best lives. Thats seems to be the view of most people I've spoken to about it so I might be wrong but im not alone.
Promoting and onboarding to HIVE is very important and im all down for the project to receive funding from the DFH if it has a good plan. Alot that do get funded from the DHF are worthy and add tons of value to HIVE but some not so much. Why does hivebuzz get 280 HBD a day? For what? badges and websites that track HIVE accounts? Is that worth $204k over 2 years? We know why it gets funded but nobody will say cause they are scared. When it comes to getting funding from DHF, it appears that a few accounts decide and many follow.
Anyways, as I said, the DHF has been a hot topic for the past few months and I dont see how it can be that hard to come up with a decent idea to promote HIVE. When someone first told me about the HIVE rally car, I thought they were trolling me.
Why not promote HIVE to people who are interested in earning free crypto?
Would that not make more sense compared to promoting to people who are interested in watching rally car racing?
50% of you are thinking...
and the other 50%...
No, hear me out. Im not a coder and not that smart but I know it's possible to clone Google Chrome as the Brave browser did because its open source.
How many people started to use Brave because it had a built-in ad blockers and people can earn free BAT crypto from watching ads if enabled? Search "earn free crypto" on youtube, google, reddit and you'll get mostly results like "Top 10 ways to earn free crypto" and Brave browser is always in them lists, always, always. Hundreds of millions of people know about the Brave browser because they can earn free crypto for watching or viewing ads.
Why waste good money to promote HIVE to people who dont care when you can build something that others will promote for us to our target end user for free? Ie, build a HIVE browser that gives out free crypto rewards and crypto YouTubers will shill it for free?
Think Braver browser with ad blockers, HIVE keychain integration and people can sign up to HIVE directly from the browser homepage. You run pop-up video ads like Brave and do an 80/20% ad revenue split with 80% going to people who watch ads. Converting ad revenue dollars into HIVE would create some consistent buying pressure on HIVE as well.
Even if it were to get 1 million downloads, if 2% of these people, 1 in 50 started to blog are interact with the blockchain through splinterlands and just staking HBD to get 20%, that's 20k new active users. If 1 in 10 from the remaining 990k were just watching ads to get free crypto, that's 99k new HIVE accounts that would need to be created to claim them.
1 million downloads would be alot for us but the potential would be much more. Brave as an example has 73M monthly users, 26M daily users and 1.6M content creators.
Anyways, thats my fart post for today. Tell me why this is a crap idea and why it would not work?
PS,
I think this would be the perfect for HIVE keychain team because their wallet is so universally used within HIVE and it never has downtime are issues plus they have good onboarding and HIVE explainer tutorials built in that pop up for new users.
PPS,
SPinvest and any linked accounts, 
Getting Rich Slowly from June 2019
| Token Name | Main Account | Link to hive-engine |
|---|---|---|
| SPI token | @spinvest | SPI |
| LBI token |  @lbi-token | LBI |
| Top XV token | @spinvest | XV |
| Eddie Earners | @eddie-earner | EDS |
| EDS miners | @eddie-earner | EDSM |
| EDS mini miners | @eddie-earner | EDSMM |
| DAB | @dailydab | DAB |
| DBOND | @dailydab | DBOND |
