I respectfully disagree. This is an investment of trust and money from which i gain nothing back (if i use his service and upvote for the cause). I need to be incentivized in order to use such a risky platform instead of a proven one (the killer features that could make me risk and switch are not there). From what i see, i'm not getting any shares into the company either.
In regards to those 10 years, i hope that you've read my post on the subject. You can't pay 10 years in advance when the unpredictability of the adoption is this high. If thousands/hundreds of thousands of users start using the platform, you will have to deal with scalability issues. How do you solve the scalability issues when you don't have a monetization plan or VC funding ? You simply can't. You just shutdown the service and let everything die or just rely on some whales for the upvotes, but that won't last for long when your expenses will start going up exponentially.
Even if you could pay for 10 years, we're adopters of blockchain technologies in here, so 10 years would be a joke. As blockchain supporters we want decentralized services with as much uptime/file availability as possible. Recording the history with possible broken links is not the way to go.
RE: [STEEMIMG.COM] Dedicated STEEM Image hosting website.