RE: Sargon of Akkad Introduction to Blockchain, bitcoin and Steem
You guys at @oracle-d have done a fabulous job of promoting, improving and using the Steem blockchain. What you've done with 3Speak is amazing and needed.
I've got a couple of questions for you if you have a moment:
Regarding Upcoming Hard Fork
Have you expressed and opinion on the next hard fork or have I just missed it? Will it negatively impact your business models?
I am personally concerned about the new voting curve where, if I understand correctly my ability to reward commentors on my blog will all but disappear.
When I met you at Decentralized in Athens you spoke about attracting investors based on giving them that power using their stake.
Regarding a Dapp For Contests
I still believe that this is a huge market opportunity that is being missed. I know that you and your team are very busy building and promoting other great projects but is something still in the works?
Contests are a huge business that attract people and could also attract sponsors and stake holders.
Any thoughts?
@kus-knee. The next iteration of the oracle-d platform will have a section to specifically let clients start contests. We already run a regular contest on @dapplovers. If u don’t know about it, u should check it out :)
Regarding hard fork, we are not particularly concerned. Projects like @likwid will help us to tailor how rewards are distributed.
Losing the ability to reward commenters will be a big problem, since this will be the main draw to transfer users from you tube to 3 speak. We will give the content creators the chance to distribute to their most loyal followers via giving them limited access to our upvote. Would be interested to find out more about the affects to commenting (do u have any sources for this?)
Thanks for the reply and the info about @likwid. I'll check it out.
The only info that I have regarding the effects on comments are the vlogs made by @exyle. From his understanding most often upvoting a comment will have little or no value! Time will tell.
Yeah man i have been testing and promoting @likwid and its working REALLy good only takes 1.5% so you can use bidbots now back to back every 7 days, almost twice as much now,
also to continue this idea of promoting steem by introducing it to social media influencers, we could start with @ned just promoting some projects to get social media influencers who talk about crypto a free steem account with a teeny bit of SP but more importtantly some major temporary delegation for like amonth or two so they can come show steem rto their followers
pewdiepie even got tricked into trying out Dlive... once ... hah hasnt been back
and so i bet he could be convinced to try steem as an alternative to reddit where posts cant get blocke dbecause theres the steem blockchain and alternative front ends, i canimagine pewdiepie showing these off and showing busy.org and going "Oh well i like this one better" and then i can imagine pewdiepie pausing, and restarting the introducinga nd going "Ok guys im here to talk to you about BUSY.org a new social media site that PAYS you and where you cant get banned!" hahaha i can imagine he just switches to busy as it looks nice,m and he will just start refering peopel liek CRAZY getting MASSIVE rewards from it.... we need a special steeminvite signup mode for pewdiepie tho thta gives him access to as many steeminvite links as we can provide, and we can use YOUTUBE as the filter, so basically yout8be has ways to distribute links to first 1000 viewers etc, we can have pewdiepie let his viewers all line up to get steeminvite links, so peope would have to bve creating multipel fake youtube accounts and wathcing him with them to get multipel fake accounts, so i think this has a chance, BUT the big problem is how @ned still hasnt given money to @pharesim and helped flesh out steeminvite.com which can send invite linsk and plug into a whales SP, and @ned can connect @steem and @steemit to it and get millions of new free instant account links a year im pretty sure and if not that has to be fixed in a HF, i havent seeen any info from ned on his new onbaording site but its needed badly, i need to know, what plans @ned has for onboarding and why he hanst helping pharesim create a new steeminvite that can manage invite linsk and create some sort of system to use facebook or twitter or reddit accounts with over a certain amount of followers etc to qualify for the free steem account...
THEN we can do a massive campaign to bring just crypto social media influencers to steem and have them make videos promoting steem, giving upvotes to their first 100 comments using the delegation ned should give to them... i know pewdiepie may not happen but he did do Dlive recently so imagine, pewdiepie or someone like him making a video showing steem and screencasting while he uses it and make sposts and shows people how his posts make one and comments get upvotes right after he posts pics of himself etc... he can have meme contests and upvote his comments, a whole new relationship between pewdiepie and his fans will emerge if he can PAY them via upvotes