Very interesting. I was a pretty big user of Musing when it first came out. After it proved to be relatively unsustainable, I started to back off. Then they lost the delegation and everything kind of went to crap. I look forward to seeing how this does.
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I think the fact that both (Musing & Quello) platforms required Hive to curate it was quite a tricky one as it follows both of their mission statements to reward valuable questions and answers and although I still definitely believe Hive is vital to this too, an additional token allows for another dynamic for that and opens up a range of other utilities to make the platform more dynamic. Although the first version will be Hive only, it won't be long until we put forward a few initiatives we'll be introducing to try and tackle this.
A second layer token always made the most sense for something like this. Also the ability to have answers only show up as comments. There was way too much abuse with the ninja stake back in the day. Had it been used properly to grow the account, it could have kept going after the delegation was pulled. Thinking long term is going to be vital for a project like this. The fact that you are taking things slowly is a good sign in my opinion.
Agreed. 2nd layer tokens will open up many possibilities.
I'm working on a 2nd layer token protocol, which I will be using to create a token for my own dApp that's currently under development. I'll be in touch when the core features are ready for review and feedback. Also working on the whitepaper.