Hey thanks Stephen - appreciate it!

Hi All Fran Strajnar here. Founder of BNC. If anybody has questions about our pricing oracles or smart contracts - feel free to sing out. Very interested to hear from developers working on distributed

Content will remain a popularity contest. Quality posts will continue to be remunerated and theoretically, adding in revenue that is shared across users means a wider distribution of Steempower so more

Personally, equity in the platform.

You have been around for years! Thanks for stopping by. Subscriptions to physical print these days are like a ball and chain for publishers I agree. I suppose for survivalist.com it's all about digital

Thanks! Vanilla Steem - that's interesting!

"I read the title but not the article" um... try reading before commenting? But yes, democracy in it's form today is nothing more than the illusion of people voting on the greater good.

There is so much that can be done. I imagine with sufficient funding, there would be plenty of A/B testing on a variety of intricacies/mechanics. This would be a wet dream for Union Square Ventures or

I don's see CocaCola or Adidas doing an intro. Introduce yourself right now is very personal. The mechanics I described do not require advertisers to make content. They can if they want but ideally as

Thank you - very useful.

Thanks for reading: Deceptive part is part of Distruption Stage. I chose not to add it as it's own point. I proposed a site-wide, master-kill-switch on a user level so people can essentially opt out. What's

I think the general public is more likely to accept advertising in the future if they can control it. We now live in a service society and everything is gamified or comes with incentive.

Thank you for your thoughts. Advertising today is all about gaining maximum efficiency for ad spend. ie down to the cost-per-view/click. Buying half the platforms steempower could be a strategic move but

Thank you. Will check out Steem Ads

Hah. Not quite. Used to run PCworld, CIO magazine and other titles about 10 years back. Got into bitcoin in 2010. Been thinking about democratization of publishing for this long but it was not until bitcoin

Will look to write a bit more if there's enough interest.

Agreed, there's plenty technologies that are very friendly with this including AI, ChatBots, Big Data Anlytics, Identity Management, etc Just need rails for externally aware revenue flow and everything

Thanks - Yes been thinking about this for 10 years. OpenBaazar.org would be ideal to integrate after ad-revenue-sharing is functional.

Hi Jeff

Want to try a more reliable data source?