I used to post on Facebook without expecting to get paid. Then blockchain came along.
After stumbling onto a new corner of the internet based on the digital-ledger technology, I discovered I could get paid to post a blog on Steemit. Most of the time though I just want to put some good content out there and if people view it and upvote fantastic, I think it's awesome.
Steemit has payed people such as Kadavy who post and comment on the site. Kadavy, a 38-year-old American writer living in Colombia, said he made about $2,000 in January.
“I feel like I’m in the Stone Age when I’m on Facebook or Twitter,” Kadavy said. “They have no value without what you’re contributing to them. If Facebook doesn’t respond to this, things can change very quickly. They should be very concerned.”
The coming of the new financial internet stands the Facebook business model on its head. With Facebook, users post content on the site and the company collects the money -- last year, $41 billion in revenue (yeah, we didn't see a penny).
On Steemit, the money goes in the other direction. Facebook, with 2.1 billion monthly users, may not even see Steemit, which says 9 million users visit each month, in its rear-view mirror. But I am just one of hundreds of thousands of people who make money even if it's 1 steem cent by posting on the new decentralised sites and apps, where nearly every user action is linked to token-based compensation.
More than 1,000 such projects that record data onto digital ledgers and are called dapps, for decentralized applications, are live or in testing. And they often let users earn their special coins or cryptocurrency by doing something they’d already done for nothing on other sites.
Sites like Steemit give content creators a portion of newly minted tokens that are being mined all the time. Most of the tokens can be traded on exchanges, so they’re worth something in dollars. And like Steem, many of these coins have appreciated. Steem stands at $3.55, up from 11 cents a year ago.
Tokens are a big reason why two-year-old Steemit already has about 100,000 content creators, according to Chief Executive Officer Ned Scott. It just broke into the top 1,000 of the web’s biggest sites, according to tracker Alexa.
So keep Steeming Steemians:)
