Steemit Smart Media Tokens. Faceduck, Instaspam & Twotter - this is the Turning Point
Micro-payments
Long before the financial crisis occurred in 2008 there was a lot of talk on the internet of the *future of micro-payment to incentivise the internet and blogging platforms in particular. Fast forward to Autumn 2017 and the world is in the grip of ICO feverand it's all down to the hard work of a few key BlockChain platforms and their faithful contributors. It will be future social currency to say you were in the first 500,000 steemians. Crypto is the Woodstock of our generation.
Steemit
A shot in the dark ? No way Jose. The Steemit BlockChain has been a much needed shot in the arm & pioneer for the internet to show the Zuckerbergs of this world that that was the past & this is the present.Tokenisation is now the immediate future and I've been wracking my brains to think of a project I can tokenise. ( actually I have at least 3 of 4 ideas which I think have legs, I'll have to SWOT them out a bit).
I love Crypto
and it's been a philosophical lifesaver for me. As a fortysomething creative who has worked tirelessly for over 20 years, it's given me hope in a new version of the system; one that has the capacity (AND BOY IT'S SO NEEDED) to redistribute some of the wealth from the 1% to the 99%. I think even the 1% know this. The world (was) about to come slowly to a grinding economic sludgy halt before crytpo popped up, thereby opening up a well of innovation. And not even the banks want to talk about that.
Post BlockChain
I wrote very recently about the post BlockChain world with ECSA and their space / gravity solution. One that I'm excited about. Lisk with it's pure Javascript approach to developing your own chain apps is another winner for me. Then there's bitshares which as we know is top notch. I personally like the OmiseGo guys, banking the unbanked in Asia. Way to go dudes. These top league chain projects are the ones likely to take the challenge to the existing world. at the moment mere drops in the ocean, soon to be raging torrents.. and now this !
Steemit SUPER CHAIN Spawns tokens for everything
Steemit's Big, Fast and Fee Free. It's a winning solution for MASS adoption of tokenisation and the developers of this community based app have unwittingly unleashed a force more powerful and much more far reaching than simple anarcho-capitalist. I believe the goodwill, open source and sharing of knowledge has made it possible to provide the springboard to leap into the now not so unknown. I'm sure there will be a few Steemians among us who will become heads of their own open post corporate organisations based around crypto tokens, hopefully using the new steemit opportunity.
Exciting !
I'm stoked, kids. It couldn't be a better time to be involved. I'm no developer but I do have a business head and creativity is at the heart of all success. If anyone wants help thinking out ideas, I'm always here to help. As a business mentor, I have helped many young start-ups define their vision, road-map and importantly build their brand.
Brand building
Being led by devs with creative people specialising in tech, I feel that the sector has had a mainly / generally very dry feel and is still too niche looking. The language is barren and gobbldy-gook to most people. That will become a stumbling block. The area needs snazzy copywriters to translate high end code talk into compiled language that people actually understand.
While it's been fine up to now, because the audience have been mainly fellow coders or at least semi-literate in geekspeak/ nerdword it's now time to start thinking like a regular brand. I do know a guy who works for a large advertising firm who has been approached by a top20 coin (no names mentioned but it's in this sentence) to ask for professional advertising help. It is beginning to happen. Branding is the art of storytelling. Logos and strap lines are important but they're just simple elements; wrappers. The real work of a brand is composed of values, narrative and a mission. Yes you do need a USP to really have a chance of success.