Dude... are you me from another earth?! Not kidding, this is what I've been saying for nearly 1 year now! Exactly the same things, word for word, the same thing about buying HIVE to stake to incentivize the people to come to that frontend, I have the same exact opinion about Tribes, even talked with some of the tribes in here to get a frontend with ads up (mainly the BATTLE tribe, which I think I may have gotten through to them). Said the same thing about the "guys doing the building", they are smart but seem to have zero knowledge about improving the value of the token, WTF...
The number of times I've tried to have this convo and make people realize that we need ads and ended up making no progress on this debate actually made me doubt my intelligence, maybe people were seeing something that I wasn't seeing.
The first person who made me realize I was thinking correctly was @khaleelkazi when he did LeoFinance and put ads up that burned the token and the price sustained itself really well! Now you say the exact same thing! Faith in my intelligence restored!
If we can get this ad business right, Hive can be top 20 by the end of this next bull market and sustain the price there even through the bear market... damn, I don't think we will even have a bear market on Hive, ad revenue has no bear market!
I do wonder if LeoFinance starts having lots of cashflow through ad revenue if @khaleelkazi is thinking about buying some HIVE to stake on leo.voter... it would help with user incentivization, it would help with HIVE token price thus helping the witnesses with the costs of running the nodes and bringing more users to HIVE, it would help if users required resources in busy times to post, etc...
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Don't worry, your the smart one. I work in business and look at that side of the coin more than the people that work in tech. Each to their own.
I'm going to keep trying to push the conversation and think that every tribe should be showing ads for revenue. I would love to see 50/50 hive/native token buy but as long as there is external money flowing into the system it's a start.
@leofinance will lay out the groundwork for other tribes to follow so that new people coming to the system will pretty much be able to copy and paste a community front end with monetization. I'm fairly sure that @aggroed mentioned that as being the end goal for tribes at one stage.
I would love to do the same with my community in the future. What better incentive to create and maintain a strong community than being able to monetize that content.
Posted this from my thoughts today and try to get more conversation started with a couple of the witnesses.
https://peakd.com/hive-177032/@niallon11/why-don-t-we-like-money