Ads are not viable until you have eyeballs. This is akin to launching a blog, getting 1000 uniques per day and thinking you can make money monetizing them. Simply not going to work until BTS exchanges are popular.
Everything started out with no eyeballs but it doesn't mean ads aren't viable. It works for coinmarketcap and many other sites in the cryptospace already.
The users of BTS who opt-in are auctioning their eyeballs for money. If you look at coinmarketcap or LTB then you'd see there are sponsors.
You're assuming the marketing will not work and no one will use BTS 2.0. You're assuming BTS 2.0 has 0 users now. How many people have downloaded BTS 2.0? Where are the use statistics?
You guys cannot be serious. This idea and the referral system are both bad ideas. The platform isn't supposed to be profitable with 0 users, stop pretending it should be. Just like any new business, you run in the negative until you attract lots of users, THEN you profit afterwards.
Im guessing this response has nothing to do with my recommendations. Gamification techniques are one of the most potent ways of motivating others....
And it often doesnt even need to be something strenuous...and even if it is, you can make it something that one does rarely to unlock bonus features free of charge. There should always be a pay option and an option to do work tonget the same bonuses. No feature should be locked to only those who have lots of money.
Making little tasks for people to do opens up many countries to bitshares who otherwise might not be able to afford everything.
I agree with this. We need to help people to earn access or earn money. The more opportunities to make money BTS 2.0 provides, the more people will use it.
People starting out with little money would want to grow their money, earn more money. If i needed money for fees I wouldn't mind viewing ads, doing surveys, or other paid activities. The point is to bring as many as possible into the economy but you can't do that if you don't monetize the economy,
So people saying lower fees, but don't bring in optional ad revenue, or wait to profit later when there are millions of users, but it's not even about how many users but about how valuable the demographics are, about who those users are, and about the opportunities being offered to them in many different forms.
So a way to simplify it is everyone involved should have a chance for some win. Muse and many other projects might need to organize teams of people to market their products, so I do think that ads in the Bitshares client makes sense to advertise these opportunities to make money on a daily basis, but also opportunities to help committed community members to grow different blockchains using similar referral programs to Bitshares 2.0.
So in essence, the referrer has a job. It's a job with no boss. It's a job where the smarter and better they work the more money they can make. It's a job similar to a commissioned stock broker, which offers the opportunity to enter into a digital nomad lifestyle (a highly prized and coveted lifestyle). It's a job which is easy to market, and every new blockchain is going to need these sorts of people if we can prove the success of it on Bitshares 2.0.
So to me it's very important to support the referral program and job creation in Bitshares 2.0.
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