I have some different ideas.
1 Start building grants on Steemit, for different purposes, and with different sizes. These grants would be crowfunded, and given out by a committe, or by voting, or both.
Examples of grants would be: Arts and culture, charity,(to organisations and persons in need).
And last but not least, basic income grants.
An idea related to this is crowdfunding by voting, the idea is to have something like a competion for the best ideas to crowdfund, and instead of crowdfunding many ideas, for this method you let the crowd decide, and you build a large pool over time, by donations and posting.
2 Steemit's versions of Patreon, where content creators can build an income by recurring donations.
Related to this is to create initiatives to make people start giving donations to people generously, and hopefully it all comes back to them.
3 an idea that is already on it's way, to attract chessplayers to steemit, by creating a pool for prices by posting on the account @chessmasters, the chess version of steemsports. Two chess teams have been created for this purpose, read about mine here
What most of these ideas have in common is that they increase rewards, and appeal to artists and creative people, as well as people in need.
4 Make a simple Fiat gateway by allowing users to buy accounts from Steemit.inc (or others) that are prefilled by an amount of SBD of your own choosing. The money can then be transferred to the main account of the user, and the account could be recycled by returning the master key after the transfer, and the master key is then changed.
5 Create badges that can actually increase your earnings if you reeceive them.
These badges should be for different things, like helping other users, or providing good ideas.
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I like the idea about grants. It should be developed even if it doesn't get the X-prize :)
Thank you. I hope to get going soon with a campaign about it. I also talked to one of the lead developers of Stemit.inc about most of my ideas, and he liked it a lot, especially the one about the badges, although that a bit of a hard one to solve,technically.
Badges can be solved via UI. Of course, they are attractive because they bring gamification,fun, comparison and friendly rivalry to the system.
Grants are a bigger deal in my opinion. They bring good to grantees and their beneficiaries, after all.
I was seriously considering of making a charity campaign on Steemit for the H.O.P.E. Foundation. But when the Steem price started sinking and rewards rules changed ... it would be a waste of time.
With a purposely built grants platform and with soon to be effective changes collecting funds for charities and grants becomes viable again.
Excellent thinking, let's keep talk more about this later, maybe we can collaborate to make this happen.
Certainly. It's a deal :)
Badges would be a great psychological incentive and means of gamifying Steemit.
Some fantastic ideas - allow me some time to digest them. Thanks for contributing:) Am going to check out chessmasters now.