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It is just an idea at the moment, with a high-level concept. There is no market verification yet, not in general, nor from Discogs.

We need to create a team before we reach out to Discogs.

It could be the case Discogs isn't interested at all which torpedoes Plan A and A2 instantly. The question is then: How to move forward? My idea is to go to the next music platform and offer the same, Plan A and perhaps Plan A2 (targets for instance are: Resident Advisor, Beatport, SoundCloud and tons more). Perhaps even Viberate which is a service that started out in crypto space, but is in fact a web2 service at the moment.

We give us eg 6 months (or 12?) to materialise a launching customer.

When nothing is materialised, draw up a new idea/concept for the same market segment, or for a new market segment. Also here I have a suggestion, go for a similar concept but then Movie segment.

After that (or parallel to): Forum, Product review and Service review segments.
And what about the Travel segment?

For certain segments, it may be the case the small players are more the prospective customers instead of the large players. For instance, I don't see Booking dot com or Agoda going for direct monetised comments and reviews, as well as I don't see these players onboarding a crypto payment system provided by HIVE. These parties will have their plans and will execute accordingly.

Although in travel space plenty of small players around. They may be interested in adding something novel to their own website/service: monetised Blogging, perhaps with their own token as a loyalty token. Thinking of it, this may be something Booking dot com and Agoda could have a match with, but still, even when they like something like that, it'll be hard to get them to use HIVE chain for the token. Although, the free-to-use aspect of HIVE (no tx fees, well, not directly, indirectly HIVE has fees, such service just needs enough RC to pay for the users' transactions) is very beneficial for a loyalty system. That said, perhaps no reason for Booking/Agoda to use a blockchain-based loyalty system. Although I can think of some benefits that may be of interest to these parties to start focussing on.

Anyway, I am zooming too much into the unknown and therefore deviating from the purpose of the post and this comment.

We need to identify the peeps with their skill sets and try and form a team to start this idea of B2B play to bring HIVE features and integrations to the (fiat) market.

You have a nice foresight and then I think if these things you have listed here can be met,it would be in favour of hive and will help it grow more. But now, the question is connecting with those that are really needed to make this thing work out as fast as it should and getting better resource credits to help. Good one champ

Yes indeed 😉 Thanks for you nice comment.

You are welcome brother