Voice looks like its more about tackling marginalized voices and appealing to the social side than the actual reward side. Steemit is basically just seen as a content tipping platform. From what ive read and heard it will be closer to a minds style site
You mean Voice is seen as a content tipping platform? Steemit and the rest are DApps for mining STEEM, SBD and Vests through Proof-of-Brain.
I don't consider blogging the be-all and end-all of Steem. It was the first application to use the Steem blockchain. Its main value lies in spreading the token, which is a must in order to guarantee sufficient decentralization to make this DPoS chain secure. In the future there will be an even greater array of Steem DApps for a large variety of purposes. Most of the value will come from high-traffic apps where most of the content is of "low quality" but seen, in total, by a large number of people. A pretty large proportion of future content will be digital assets such as those used in games.
I agree with what you’re saying and that’s the way steem hopefully will go and more dapps come on board to make the ecosystem worth while!
Blogging was a a great first start just to give people an idea of what’s possible like you said not the be all and end all!!
Not everyone wants to blog some of us are content consumers, or gamers or casual gamers or have other interested like fitness that can be added in here in unique ways
For example I’ve really enjoyed seeing the growth of steem monsters and I’m hoping to see more projects like these!
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From what I can see of voice it might be good for journalists but without the reward side it offers no advanced from what I can see over what already exists? What is it that you see?
You didn't ask me but what I see going for it is the ability to monetize attention through endorsements. Once you done well on the platform and amassed a lot of VOICE tokens, you'll be able to sell your potential for attention. It sounds like the idea is to monetize attention off-chain on the fiat side.
I seriously think Steem and EOS Voice need to work together. Facebook is a serious threat to not just Steem and EOS Voice plans but possibly to Bitcoin depending on what Facebook does. They are working on this GlobalCoin thing which I think a lot of people who should know better are completely underestimating them on.
Do not under estimate Facebook. They are launching this month and I don't think it's any accident that they launch at the same month that EOS Voice is announced.
That's an awfully zero-summish approach. What exactly is the terrible thing that can happen to Steem when Facebook launches it's much touted stablecoin called GlobalCoin?
Bitcoin's use case is to act as both a money transmission system and as a store of value as in digital gold. Bitcoin's entire value proposition is its decentralization. It lies outside the control of governments and central banks and their corrupting influence. Facebook seems to want to ride on the coat tails of the crypto movement probably because the younger generations are abandoning Facebook. By introding GlobalCoin it becomes a money transmitter and probably will be successful at that. At the same time, by branding its product as a cryptocurrency, it legitimizes the entire space in the eyes of billions of people. If anything, Facebook's GlobalCoin is bullish for the crypto space.
A VOICE/STEEM trading pair could be built on Steem-Engine. What comes to your mind?