#native-ads

The idea of Proof of Brain hit me hard when I first encountered it sometime in 2017, when I read the Steem and SMT whitepapers. Delegating the distribution of currency and value to users/holders/stakeholders

Thank you all for the feedback on my last post. I am going to respond on this post. @marki99 Initial low inflation, then removed completely. Advertisers need to buy the coin to promote their content and

We have a chance to be quite creative with token types on the HAT sidechain and I'd like to hear some ideas from you all. What kind of tokenomics would you like to see for tokens you can create on HAT?

While working on Native Ads decentralization, it became apparent to me that implementing Native Ads as a sidechain would offer a much more robust foundation, with more tailor-made support for the features

In my opinion, perceived attention value is one of the most under-utilized asset classes in the world today. I mean, all the other social networks are tapping into this market (think ad revenue of FB,

It's been a long time coming. Not because I don't believe in this platform (LeoFinance), but because I've been going hard at writing code, that's soon to be released; and gathering my thoughts so that

I recently released a new feature called "Delegated Moderation" which effectively allows a Monetizer Account to select other Hive accounts to moderate ads on its behalf. Docs mod_add link to

It's live! Native Ads (alpha) has been running for 4 days now. I've just finished working on the documentation so it's up-to-date and covers all the features that are currently live. Documentation: Source

Here's a brief overview of what I have implemented in the last week. 23 commits, 975 additions and 231 deletions, when I merged the dev branch into master... See all my commits here: This week, I managed

Here's a brief overview of what I have implemented in the last week. 18 commits, 295 additions and 143 deletions, when I merged the dev branch into master... See all my commits here: Most of the code I

It's been a week since I started working on the Native Ads protocol, as a standalone protocol. Here's a brief overview of what I have developed in the last week. 33 commits, 563 additions and 48 deletions,

I have now published the code, work-in-progress as it is, so that I can share my progress with you all as I work on this. After a chat with @theycallmedan, I decided to give this a higher priority among

It has been about 4 months since ideation, 7 weeks and about 1,000 lines of code and... the Native Ads beta version is finally ready! Hivemind X That's the name I've given my fork of Hivemind :) It's a

In Native Ads, an ad (saved as a post, hidden, declining rewards) is universal, within the Steem ecosystem. Its definition (properties, type, etc) is self-contained, also stored on the post (as JSON metadata).

This is another test. Please ignore.

This is a test. Please ignore.

This post is more on the technical side. It's a follow-up to the previous development update, in which I shared the two classes of ad time that will be available: scheduled and unscheduled ads. Here, I

The way we have experienced ads on social media platforms has brought a lot of people to dislike the concept. This stems from a number of issues. Irrelevance to context A lot of ads become annoying (rightfully

What if 100 STEEM/SMT could buy me an entire day's exposure within a community of 100,000 members? What if the ads showed up on various spots within the community: could be on the homepage or beneath posts?