Extreme thought: How much do you think a top STEEMIT story should worth in the future
I have been in Steemit for about a month. Times to times again, I will see someone questioning how much one author could earn so much in a consistent basis. But the question is what is "SO MUCH?"
Some of the posts come to my mind that have the highest payout recently.
https://steemit.com/steemfest/@joseph/win-a-free-trip-to-lisbon-portugal-to-attend-steemfest-ii - USD 2092
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@kingscrown/usa-wants-travelers-to-declare-bitcoin-at-the-border - USD 2148
It is looking relatively distributed and the "SO MUCH" may be referred to around USD 1500 - 2500 range.
And for the more extreme records:
https://steemit.com/piston/@xeroc/piston-web-first-open-source-steem-gui---searching-for-alpha-testers - USD 46973
https://steemit.com/beauty/@guerrint/the-first-steemit-makeup-turtorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit - USD 26660
and there are some more falling around 10000 to 20000 range.
Do you call it a lot? Maybe....
Until I read the below.
So Christiano Ronaldo could make 400K per post? and Lebron James could make 120K per post?
Imagine in Steemit, it means you will see 400000 number next to their upvoting button.
What if everyone come up together and vote 100% of the Voting power to a particular post and how much payout it will be?
According to Steemwhales.com, the average steem power is 1,436, assuming we have about 230K members and therefore the total steem power will be around 330M.
And according to steemnow.com, with my voting power at 2k, each 100% of my vote would worth about 0.62. After HF 19, the calibration becomes really easy because everything is now linear and therefore with 330M voting power, the payout could go as most as 102K which is not enough to attract Lebron James to post here.
So what is my point?
- When everyone is complaining others making so much money posting, think about how much time they need to devote to create such content and keep the community going and therefore we should be thankful.
- Looking at the big picture, the "SO MUCH" is nothing when you look outside of the world. It is still everyone's game. This means if you create good content, you could be one of the guy in the list. And you may see a much higher payout in the future given the continue growth in Steemit Community, that could be a new normal. This is actually very reasonable considering Steemit only has 200K members and Instragram has 700 millions ACTIVE users. And we all consider Steemit is better than Facebook and Instragram combined? (I know I do).
- For future enhancement: in order to bring in real life STAR to Steemit, we may need to give more reward to the top posters.
Let me know what you think.
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