Topic: The Greatest Bitcoin Invention Ever! (updated) (Read 1577 times)

if bitcoin hits 10k that 5 cents turns to 10 cents. personally, im not trying to give anyone a damned bit of my bitcoin, please have some inflationary USD  

Great idea, but I think the majority of youtube posters thrive on the comments section being free. i will never pay to comment; someone could talk shit about my mom and I would stare at the video and be like "man, thats cold, but they arent getting my btc. mom will be alright".

then your 2 cent turn into 5 cent because min 10k satoshi transaction fee

ok the way i can see it working well would be this..

when you write a comment you pay 2cents..
1cent goes to the video producer.. and 1 cent is stored as a '+1' credit..

meaning you get to +1 another persons post..

so lets say 20 people write comments..(40cent total budget) video producer gets 20cent
and then the commenters see that 3 commenters make very informative posts
Commenter A: +12 (12cent reward)
Commenter B: +5 (5cent reward)
Commenter C: +3 (3cent reward)

this will mean that people will want to make very informative comments in the hope people will +1 them, and get some profit from the comments


as far as i have interpretted a working idea.. the viewers PAY to comment. but can also be rewarded for having informative comments.

lets say another website pays people 1cent for just making a random spammy comment.. 100% of viewers would make 1000 comments.. to raid the websites cashpot.
but by making it cost 2cent to make a comment, that will remove the spam as there is no incentive to write spam if it will cost you.. that way lets say only 1% of viewers decide they want to comment and actually pay for the privelidge.. that alone is a good thing..

and by also having a commenters reward system, more commenters would be tempted to pay to write something.. but not just to spam comments as they wouldnt get any +1.. but to actually have something productive to say they would get rewards.

yes maybe only 10% of viewers will comment in th hope of a reward.. but they would be the best comments ever, compared to 100% of viewers making 1000 comments to raid the 'pot' of the other site

On this general topic, I do look forward to someone developing a cryptocurrency geared towards microtransactions that can be used for  viewing web pages in general. Right now when you go to the average news website you are being barraged with dozens of ads to read one story (including all the annoying/misleading clickbait stuff).  Imagine just having an account with a couple dollars worth of crypto, and when you visit the news website it just deducts a small amount from your account, but you get a nice, clean webpage with just the news story (or whatever) you were looking for. I think a lot of people are at the point where they'd be willing to pay for that, at least some of the time.

This is slightly related to a project I worked on a few months ago, but tabled for the time being because it involves extremely high transaction rates. Until that is solved, ideas like this will have to wait, at least as far as widespread adoption is concerned.

I think more would be willing to spend two cents to remove an ad

How many times in history has charging for something that was customarily free worked? People just go elsewhere. Same goes for paying to avoid ads. There's plenty of workarounds that don't cost a bean. I don't think most people are bright enough to realise that they might make a little bit off their comments afterwards.

As far as I understand the OP's idea was not to be paid when submitting a comment but to pay if you want to make one. And this is new and interesting idea IMO, because it may help to get rid of many spammy comments.

That actually sounds like something that might work.
But there already is sites that pay people to post/comment and even like an article.

The OP's idea is not something new.

ok the way i can see it working well would be this..

when you write a comment you pay 2cents..
1cent goes to the video producer.. and 1 cent is stored as a '+1' credit..

meaning you get to +1 another persons post..

so lets say 20 people write comments..(40cent total budget) video producer gets 20cent
and then the commenters see that 3 commenters make very informative posts
Commenter A: +12 (12cent reward)
Commenter B: +5 (5cent reward)
Commenter C: +3 (3cent reward)

this will mean that people will want to make very informative comments in the hope people will +1 them, and get some profit from the comments

Haha, yea....absolutely true. Fill in any really annoying marketing gimmick and you'll find people that will pay to not have to deal with it. What about paying to not get all the trash marketing mail in my physical mail box? What about paying to not get all the trash marketing mail in my email inbox?

More to your original idea, i'd pay money to only see the content I want (rather than having to sift through a bunch of garbage I don't want.)

In this way you discourage people to talk on a free platform. You would also push away or exclude the poor or financially challenged people with great ideas and comments.

I would rather implement something where people with high quality comments get tipped by the owner of the site, funded from advertising income. The AD spammers, could

just be IP banned automatically.