RE: The biggest problem I see when it comes to curation and making STEEM an information hub and how SMTs can help - ShareSTEEM
Interesting take on sharing other people's work.
Maybe this is a hair brained idea and unworkable in practice but I wonder if someone can figure out a way to allow the original author to claim a locked up reward after the fact.
For example let's say I post a link to an article from someones website, like I might do on reddit but it's not mine so I can only curate and/or receive a very small reward for posting it. So let's say for argument sake that the post gets upvotes and would be worth 100 dollars, the 25 for curation would be distributed as normal but the 75 could locked up for a time, say 90 days letting the real author join steem and claim it....the proposition to authors could change from "post good content here and maybe earn money" to "your work has been posted here and earned you money already, come get it, and if you keep up the good work you could earn more"
Excellent idea. But the only way I could see this happening is through digital identity. If content has been posted using Civic to access a certain platform, then the author could use Civic to prove his/her identity to the blockchain and claim rewards. We could use something like Oracles but that'd only work with popular content creators that is easy to verify. Other methods would be too much of a pain.
Eventually we'd come to a point where your idea could be properly implemented. James Cameron had to wait a long time to make Avatar.