Thanks, this was really interesting. Are you able to access the number of views as well? That is, look at this info and look into some analytics of the relationship between page views/reads and votes/money made, or comments made, for example?

I've always thought that because all Steemit posts are accessible by anyone on the Internet, and the potential readership is way larger than the current Steemit userbase, there should be either some reward-type or some other means of differentiating between Steemit views and general web views as well.

Without advertising, though, I'm not sure how the platform benefits from non-Steemit users reading (other than to encourage authors to produce better content, which is good for the platform as a whole) - but it's something I have thought about a lot and would love to hear what you (or anyone reading this!) thinks.