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Ethereum-Based Bidding System Lets Users Rank and Own Online Conversations (medium.com)
1 points by beastdevmoney 310 days ago
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I don't understand the incentives here. Why would people pay to make an initial post, and why would people pay to boost that post? Making conversations pay-to-play seems like a recipe guaranteed to heavily distort those conversations.