OK, your above post got me going on some other ideas.
Imagine an "Uber" sort of service that is run by a blockchain (like Steem). Instead of paying $10 and $2 goes to the driver and $8 goes to Uber, you would have $9.75 going to the driver, $.25 going to the blockchain service fees.
Yes, this new economy will upset the apple cart! :-D
However, am I correct in saying that data in Steem is really non-persistant? (That is, it doesn't stick around very long, right?) For a gig-based service like Uber, you would want certain features to be persistent. For example, if you rate your driver 5 stars, and gave a review that he played all the right music on the car ride, other people should be able to look that up in the future. Can the Steem network hold persistent data like that? I'm not sure.
That image is too small to see. Are you trying to say that the network could hold persistent data?
I dabble in Ruby programming. Perhaps I should check it out.
Actually yes! SteemIt is an example of Persistent data. Your posts will remain retrievable from the Steem Blockchain so long as it's running. And it will likely run for decades at least.
Kind regards : )
That's great news! Thanks!
http://www.steemreports.com
Great, I think that blockchain can prevent the 'gig economy' from being turned into a new paradigm of more insidious corporate control...
https://www.pinterest.com/liberty4rp/propaganda/
https://steemit.com/franklyspeaking/@frankbacon/frankly-speaking-a-punkcast-hustle-in-the-steemit-economy