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RE: As Bitcoin price goes up, Steem is sold down...
Why Microsoft?
DTube is pretty much like YouTube. It uses the chain for rewards and IPFS for storing the video files. I don't think Steem actually supports anything like Facebook very well. All transactions are public and explorable forever on chain. I don't think that's what Facebook users would want.
Microsoft is more interested in supporting decentralization and if you read some of their announcements, they stated that they will build on IPFS (the protocal that @dtube is partly based on).
Secure messaging can be built on top of the Steem blockchain through Dapps (i.e. @partiko ) and if you read one of the announcements by Mark Zuckerberg he said that Facebook represents the "Townsquare" (Public) and that he will build new apps with End-to-End encrypted messaging (Private).
I see no reason why Steem based Dapps couldn't do the same and I believe successful centralized companies that cannot compete with Facebook and YouTube will eventually launch Steem based Dapps.. not everyone but at least some of the semi-popular social media networks that cannot compete against Facebook.
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