Taraz Taraz Taraz... Long good read, but the logic is there to support just letting people only be tippers. Read and tip and that's it. I think the content authors would do better at their craft. The value of the creative content would go up... More engagement as well!

As a content author on the biggest crypto blogging platform in the world, that's all they need right now in my opinion. The tipping model is worth looking at for STEEM because the reward pool is used to provide the tip for the readers. Once they tip the author they are put on a 24 hour timer... However they are allowed to tip other authors that create content! The minimum tip is 20% and the maximum is 100%! That means the reader and tipper would be able to keep 80% of the tip provided from the reward pool. Further, the reader and tipper would at the most have only 6 read and tips per day! ...I guess by now you can imagine why I refer to them as RATs ~ READERS-AND-TIPPERS!

Just the other day the biggest crypto powered platform in the world announced a new tipping model which allows advertisers to contribute cryptocurrency, e.g., Steem or one of the other cryptocurrencies created by STEEM-ENGINE. After the reader tips, a link that tells the reader more about the advertiser that supplied the crypto for tipping would take the reader to a project blog post for the reader to continue READING AND TIPPING, e.g., a blog post about about "the glass of whine!"...

Anyhow, your analogy from the perspective of a Steemian blockchain investor makes a lot of sense especially now with the new crypto the Tribes are supplying the blockchain! It will take a little more time because we just shifted to life-speed, but when it hits year 5 of banking 100% STEEM POWER and STAKING all the other Tribes supplying token... woo woo woo woo woo... woo woo woo woo woo... Is all I'm saying relevant to your article!