RE: Something for everybody: Quality, value, spam... "Whatever"
Taraz, you weren’t wrong before. Since once upon a time Steem was only accessible through steemit.com, and it was predominantly a writing platform, without any bells and whistles.
Remember the time when Facebook was all about taking tests and writing on walls, and no ads?
Steem is evolving ang growing new branches 🌱🌿 in 10 years it’s going to look like a completely different monster than it is now. The price of Steem is important, but setbacks are normal and healthy. The only way it can survive is through the user base.
I won’t be surprised that at some point some company is going to start harvesting user data from the blockchain and analyzing it. For example to cater to services like dclick.
(Like analyzing the contents of the bloggers who click at certain adds etc)
I can’t wait for real publishers to begin looking for new talent on Steem :) the way Instagram is used now to discover new talent.
I was wrong in my short-sighted and uninformed vision of the future . I am okay with that, I was due for being wrong this decade... ;)
If Steem does what I think it can, it will be unrecognisable and very elusive to pin down.
It is important now because it aids distribution for staked voting which will hopefully make this place much healthier when it increases in price again.
I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't happening already and not all for monetisation purposes.
Real publishers as well as a whole range of new developers coming in to create and leverage the infrastructure below us.
Oh yeah :) they are definitely collecting data already!
This is all super exciting :D
I never thought that YouTube would ever start offering no-ad subscriptions and movies for payment (albeit I’m surprised they don’t offer a range of languages and subtitles with them)
Or who thought iTunes would become a store?? I remember even that Apple stayed that’d never happen...
I just dream that someday public transport will accept payments in Steem that could be directly withdrawn from the wallet...oh how cool would that be!
There are so many use cases for these kinds of transactions it is endless. What might be interesting is a token that can accept and convert them all automatically on the fly through an exchange.
Well, it has been done sort of. That’s why it comes to my mind :) in Japan you can use the phone or a transport card which is connected to a credit card. You can either put some money on it yourself like a prepaid, or it will automatically “refill” from the credit card when you go through the metro gates. The system has been around longer than smartphones. So i really hope someone would find partners and investors in Japan, because they have the infrastructure ready for it.
Yep, they do it here too, shouldnt be to difficult