Steem team, Sunday morning musings.

7/25/2016 11:49:00 am Unknown 0 Comments

Sunday 24th July 2016

This morning I had the brilliant idea of putting together a team of writers then publishing our content on steemit.com

Steemit.com is a crypto currency related social network, very similar to reddit, with the difference that good content gets paid in actual money, albeit Steem dollars. Easily convertable to Bitcoin or Fiat.


So during my lightning fast brainstorm I came up with a name STEEM TEEM, and a idea of how we will divide our earnings from the platform. Firstly why is it better to collaborate on Steem?
Steem power gives the writer of a post more exposure similar to a higher google ranking. However steem power is not free, it can either be earned or bought. The thing about using a collective to publish your posts, is that you will have the visibilty of the group for each of your listings instead of just being one in an ocean of new posts each getting very few views. Its beneficial to have great writers, because that will bring more upvotes and in turn more steem power and in turn more visibility, can you see how the vicious cycle grows and grows?

So I decided quite quickly that the first 3 posts a writer donates to the STEEM TEEM will add exclusively to the steem power of the collective, After that the writer will keep 70% of the steem dollars earned, with the other 30% being divided between Crypto SI, Steem teem Shareholder (to be explored later) and more steem power, I really cant emphasise how important steem power is to visibility.



I thought also about selling upvotes when, the STEEM TEEM vote becomes powerful enough, this may take a while and has ethical implications, but all can be explored at a later date.

Shareholders, I thought of having an equity sale which can go towards purchasing steem power and reward the investors in the steem teem with a regular dividend (monthly) from a percentage of the money raised by our bloggers. This also gives the bloggers a chance to own a portion of the project if they can see a long term future for it.

I havent seen anything like this yet on steem, but its only a matter of time, the real challenge will be if its shunned on the platform or steps are taken to downvote collaborative posters. Its a small risk and worth taking in my opinion.

I currently have just over $1k worth of steem power, which is enough to get a small amount of traction, so I'm pretty much ready to get this project started tomorrow

If you'd like to recommend a blogger or vlogger to the STEEM TEEM, feel free to message me
cryptosixxx@gmail.com
or you can find me on twitter @crypto_si
instagram @mrcarlanthony

Let me know what you think of this musing in the comments below.

Adfete, Why I hope it will change the world

7/12/2016 11:56:00 pm Unknown 0 Comments

Adfete is a new platform I'm working on, It's pretty straight forward so I wont subject you to a tonne of reading before giving you the summary.......

Adfete will be a platform, utilising crypto currency, which will allow people to buy and sell product placement in any form of media. I'll let that marinade in your mind for a moment.

I had the idea when I learned of a story that the daily telegraph (big newspaper in UK), would not cover the HSBC drug cartel money laundering scandal, because HSBC were a major advertiser. I wondered who would cover this story? Young turks? Max keiser? A whole host of other shows with a tiny foloowing and almost zero advertising dollars behind them. Is this because they don't get the viewership figures? Is this because brands dont know where to go to contact these people to make proposals?

I watch a lot of music videos on YouTube, here's one I'd typically watch


5 million views over the course of a year - all with some very specific analytics. I'm pretty sure the uploader knows the ages and locations of most of the viewers, along with a whole host of other metrics. This is an independent video, shot by a couple of kids from london, on a budget that would rival my monthly petrol bill. The next time they shoot a video I'd happily pay them 1-2k to advertise my sneaker brand, knowing it'll have 5 million eyes on it (allbeit not unique hits), assuming they'll throw in a tweet to their 41k followers, and a link in the description to my website to buy the shoes. Perhaps I know nothing about product placement prices, perhaps that exposure is only worth 500 quid..... I'll tell you what, I bet these would of taken the money!

lets put this into context : The Great British Bake Off most-watched TV show in 2015. With more than 15 million viewers - The most watched show on commercial TV was the britains got talent final which had 12.51 million viewers, Just imagine how much you'd pay to have cups in front of the judges for 12 million viewers. In music video terms thats not close to the best of the year, Zayn malik will rack that up in a few hours, 6 months later he's at half a billion, what price for him to wear a certain watch in his next video? Or maybe sing about getting his girlfriend your fragrance? just a line has to be worth quite a bit, but its purely speculation, AdFete would build a market and let it decide.

Dash, (www.dash.org) for me was the first DAO, people may argue it was Bitcoin, but that's all happening in another blog post somewhere. Anyway...... For me it's highlighted exactly how easy it is to implement the wishes of the community with cryptocurrency. Nxt (www.nxt.org) makes it super easy to set up a mechanism for paying your share holders. So that could be incorporated also into the platform.

I've started building the platform, and I'm floating the idea about to see what people think, I've not even mentioned Porn yet, we'll save that for another post, when I've gotten my mind around the moral implications. So what do you think? A place to make the home twitch streamer a couple extra quid, or to fuel the next generation of investigative journalists, as long as they get views, they can engage in some native advertising.

feel free to check out the forums while they are being developed http://adfeteforums.com/
and the website http://adfete.com/

It's going to be a great journey