8.4 : About financial incentives to Steemit/community
Your short answer appears to be "nothing." We agree that the open sourcing of SteemPress is great and a valuable contribution, but we're still looking for the ongoing benefit of a 1M Steem power delegation.
How does your current approach get new users to purchase Steem?
We will install numerous incentives for the blogs we onboard to buy STEEM and/or hold the Steem Power they earn. One way is through our new gamified curation system where curation will depend on numerous factors including minnows who choose to buy and power up Steem power. We also market to our users that owning stake is crucial to drive engagement on their Steem powered comment section and allowing them to incentivise positive engagement and reader retention, which will make them buy more STEEM. This is opposite to marketing STEEM as a currency you earn in order to sell as all front ends currently do, we want to present it as a resource you want in order to power your blog. Finally, our discover dashboard and notification system will give increased exposure to curators with a decent amount of Steem Power (we will only show notifications when users receive an upvote worth more than a set amount i.e 0.20$). The goal is to showcase that Steem Power can help bring more visibility to your blog not only through higher self-votes resulting in higher ranking on one's own posts, but also through being able to do more frequent and more valuable curation of other users with similar interests.
These are some examples of how we plan to incentivise buying STEEM and holding Steem Power and includes smaller users as well as larger blogs. More advanced plans will follow the release of the pro version, as well as our plans for future SMT consulting and integration once SMTs are here.