OK but if in a bull market 20 Medium Websites want to integrate Steem it would be not possible.
or maybe 1 medium Website wants to onboard there Users, for example 10k. It would cost them arround 30k Steem / Ton of RC or wait like forever.
So logic is wrong because if there add Value to steem with new Users, why there should pay for it?
Accounts must be close to Free, otherwise i see no way how to expand in a big scale.
So i dont see a real world advantage for Steem at the moment.
The Same with SBD.
In my opinion it should be removed or fixed because it is a broken token and it was never worth 1$.
I would say make out SBD a copy of DAI. Like you can look up Steem and get DAI. And remove SBD from rewarding.
So it is way more scalable and has no impact on inflation. It cant be abused.
IT also would be nice as a stable traiding pair for SMT / Steem engine Tokens / Gameitems / .... and would add more Trading Value and liquidity to the internal market.
And the best of all, the broken Token is removed.
Accounts can be free, and there are already guest accounts. Resource credit pools are coming to support this also.
But a "Full" Steem account cost 3 Steem or RC. If Steem hits 5$ it would be 15$. I think it is way to expensive for a really big scale, because there need RC too.
And If a Forum with only 5k Users want to onboard without guest accounts ( Because there want to use there own SMT), it would take forever.
The same with Online Games ( here can Wallet addresses works maybe really well).
The Wallet address Accounts can work, but it isnt tested and finished.
OR RCs
There is the potential to put both accounts and RCs into pools for usage. There is also the potential for guest accounts to be used in multiple ways so only those currently logged in get a seat, and it drops away once they logout and it gets suffled to the next user. This would work for games.
There are several ways around this, and SMTs do not necessarily need every user to have an account I believe as a website can integrate it into their experience and have the blockchain track the transactions for individual users to follow their earnings/rewards/or whatever they set the SMT to do. They don't all have to work like Steem works now and I think that once in the wild, developers can get quite creative and generate many transaction (freely) without necessarily needing many user-held wallets.
Not my area though.
Proxy accounts + RC pools + off chain scaling (Openseed.) - Let users choose what goes on chain and what does not, and if they want it on chain they would need to buy/earn a premium account. The goal is to make free accounts just as nice as the real thing, and let users earn or get intrigued enough to buy a full fledged Steem account. Steem is yet to scale perfectly, no blockchain has, but we have at least a roadmap that will actually work if we buidl it.
Hey Dan, I am sorry to come here with a bit of OT but I commented on one of your previous posts where you were a kind of brainstorming for new ways to onboard the masses and I think you missed that suggestion so let me copy/paste here. Your feedback would be highly appreciated as I am really thinking about realizing it now.
I recently found out there is a large community of people in my homeland (Czech Republic) that is (quite desperately sometimes) looking for any kind of online income. The community is mostly made up students, women on maternity leave, housewives, unemployed etc. and they gather at several major chats and online forums were they share their experiences and tips on how to get some online gigs. They are often willing to spend long hours on filling some crazy online questionnaires for literally a few dollars or even dozens of cents for example. I am sure blogging on Steem could be much more enjoyable and profitable for them and I am thinking about launching a special campaign in the Czech Steemian community to target on the forums where these people gather and educate them on what Steem is and what it has to offer. I am pretty sure there is a lot of these people in other countries too. To me, it sounds like an interesting sector of the cyber space to plant the Steem seed into. What do you think about it?