Now the news are out and I guess, what I have reported the last weeks, matches the picture we have now...ok, it was obvious because they announced it a few times on telegram and twitter :D ...but what does this mean for us?

June-One was not about Voice

For us Steemians it was a great possibility to learn. Block.One/Eos cooperates with Coinbase, they have an educational program (Eos EARN) and any user finishing the course gets 10 Dollar in EOS. But the most important thing is the Coinbase-Listing. Now EOS has custody for Institutional Investors.

Second: they have Web-Authent implemented in EOS.io 2.0, you can log in from any online browser.
The Web-Authent signature can be used to sign blockchain transactions.

Third: EOS Virtual Machine is designed in a way that enables multithreading which is one step to inter blockchain communication without sharding

and last: they have a social media app. Today I looked through my feed and people here on Steemit still don't get the point.

>>It is not about the Social Media.<<

Whoever downloads the app, automatically generates an EOS account. Aha, you have Metcalfe's law in mind? Right, the number of users --> value of the network --> market cap. It's growth-hack. And damn, social media is an important one! There would be no Steemmonsters, no Drugwars, no Steem dAPP without Steem(it).

Lets see who has the longest...

What we know about the Social Media:

• its called Voice,

• it has its own token,

• the token can´t be bought (so it's not buy2win. No whales, only content producers)

• you can only earn token by publishing your content

• the format of the content does not matter and depends on the community and subcommunities

• You can use your tokens to advertise your content BUT if the users disagree by upvoting other content over yours (so NO flagging and toxic shit) you lose your rank on the trending page and get back your tokens.

So it's a system where nothing but the popularity of your content matters, and the popularity comes from the utility all the users get from it.

• What about the UBI? You get paid by showing up. Every user. Every day.

• No, you can´t make thousands of accounts because of proof-of-life

• Yes, you can have multiple accounts for different purposes. Your podcast, company, blog, youtube channel but those accounts don't get the UBI and the user rights. The can only publish their content, promote it and get voted. Unlike on Steem(it), companies have no political influence.

• No, it´s not a typical KYC. It's a multistep customer identification. And no you don't have to identify for any interaction, you can build anonymity bridges for anonymous interaction with the blockchain.

• No, Voice is not just a Website/front End. Voice can be implemented in Web-blogs and websites.

So on Voice, only a few will become professional, those with professional content. This is something people will easily accept because its the law of organic social media but this means that Voice has no special selling point. It will have the same problems to onboard new users as any other good project.

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Why this is not like CSI Miami

Some additional notes on biometric data. In the last article, people came with really good points, so we dug a little bit deeper into biometrics.

Using Biometrics does not mean, that your fingerprint gets stored. You can read this false argument under many articles. Your finger-biometrics is not the same as your finger-print. Your fingerprint which you leave on a door handle is an optical representation of the surface of your fingertip. Your finger-biometrics is the electrical resistance of your skin, including deeper layers. This is why scratches don't disturb the picture.

Fingerprint =/= Fingerbiometrics

So, an attacker needs the biometrical/ deep-structure Data of your fingers. If you have stored it on governmental servers or other central servers, well maybe it's not safe.

But again, with a finger-ID-Sensor, you can choose even multiple fingers and combinations (Thumb left, index right, thumb right, ...)

so no worry (@marcus0alameda), even if a psychopath is cutting your hand, spans your fingers over a mechanical combinatory password cracking device, it will need some time. He should better prepare some ice. Plus he needs access to the device. Oh and when combined with face-lock...well... If your lucky, he uses you alive to get into your precious account ... but hey, then your wallet is locked by a master key. ... you see, biometrics don't make it easier for hackers, they make it worse.

It's an interesting time, and maybe we see Steem wake up and leverage its potential, by being smart, unique but cooperative and giving users the best experience the web can deliver. The code of the EOS IO-reference-IOS-Authenticator-App is opensource and public on GitHub. It´s not a threat, its a present. But we need to be open-minded and informed!

As always, I'm interested in Your opinions, I bet some of you come up with great critics on the topic.