Do you think you'd be able to monetize it for more than £30 elsewhere? If so, definitely hold onto it :)
Yep take a look at SM, gaming is big business - we only need one to go viral and it would be huge for Steem.
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It wouldn't be worth £30 per se, but a proper theoretically located and methodologically sound analysis of steemit could be a Doctorate. I've always fancied actually getting a PhD - ever since I abandoned my last one. Probably not good form to publish the majority of it online.
It may never happen of course: but this place is a sociological gold-mine. I'm amazed the researchers haven't already come digging, I would've expected at least some media/ sociology/ digital anthropology Masters students.
There's actually quite a tradition already... you've probably heard of Margaret Mead, who wrote 'coming of age in Samoa'... well about 10 years ago someone did a PhD entitled 'coming of age in second life' - David Millar and Mark Carrigan are two other people to look out for...
An analysis of how offline and online worlds intersect here and especially how the platform encourages the neoliberal subject or the adoption of neoliberal subjectivties (defined here -link) would be an interesting starting point.
I don't think it would make pretty reading once it's finished.
Then there's the methods... I could write a book already about the problems of how to research this place.
Anyway, enough said, this place is a potential way-in to an academic career if someone wants it. My only question is whether I do or not... I just don't need one. I could just go set up a homestead instead... build an eco-haven, or build a thesis?
Honestly, it's a tough decision.
I could do both at once.
Makes you want to stick around doesn't it?
If the digging wasn't so tough at present, I would expect there to be plenty of research types snooping around.
I had that feeling of, 'i need to write a book on this place' when I was heavily involved in the video chat world over a decade ago. Although unattached to money, the social/interaction side of things well, I've never seen anything like it. Gold, in a melting pot.
I would opt for Homestead first, and If you have time, some words later :)