Steem-Engine: The Next Generation Of Content Curation

Exactly two years ago, my Steem account was minted by the Steemit account creation service. It has been a long and rewarding road for me. Today, top Steem witness and multi-genious Hive account@aggroed introduced ScotBB, a new cooperation between Hive account@steem-eng and BuildTeam. This is yet another announcement that brings us closer to the original SMT idea. Let's have a look at all the these exciting news and what they mean for us.

Steem-Engine

After the Hive account@steemmonsters founders Hive account@yabapmatt and Hive account@aggroed created the Steem Keychain browser extension, that securely handles your private keys on your local computer, many Steem apps, including Steemit itself, have integrated this fast, easy and safe tool to login and confirm transactions. Then they came up with Steem-Engine, which creates a second-level token system on the Steem blockchain. This is a premium service and requires you to pay 100 ENG tokens. This might change to staking instead of spending, in the near future.

Engine Miners

Now you can get Engine Miners, called EM and EMFOUR (mines 4x as much) on the Steem-Engine platform. All you need to do to get a passive income is stake them. There will be 100,000 new ENG tokens created per year with this method. Over 100,000 Steem has already be spend for these miners in the few days they exist. Steemians understand that there will be huge demand for ENG in the future, when all these ecosystems have to stake them, they will leave the circulation and lower the supply. If the demand continues, this will drive up the price.

Scot

With the Smart Contract Organization Token called Scot and the Scotbot, that mirrors the Steem distribution via proof-of-brain, we now basically get what Steemit promised two years ago with the Smart Media Tokens, but with a different technical approach. We have seen this principle already in Weedcash, which cloned the open-source Steemit platform and rebranded it. You can earn WEED there. Literally.

To create your own token ecosystem, you need to get 1000 ENG and stake them. And additional 1 ENG has to be staked for each user of the token. Appics is using this approach, which will finally enable the Instagram-clone to open the floodgates to their sexy photo and video app. You will be able to earn the new Appics token XAP next week already!

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ScotTube

Yet another amazing project is ScotTube, where Steem-Engine partners with Hive account@dtube. The idea for ScotTube is to enable communities to build their own video platform, including token economy with upvoting power. This is huge because it will get harder and harder to compete on generalized platforms like YouTube or even Dtube itself. If you have a special video platform just for a specific niche, the content will find its audience much easier and gets much better curated.

ScotBB

The guys are on fire and don't slow down with new developments: ScotBB has been announced today and partners Steem-Engine with the new TokenBB platform from BuildTeam. We can already see this in action in the new Monsters forum for Steem Monsters (rebranded into Splinterlands), where you can earn Splintertalk (SPT).

You can basically create your own forum, powered with a brand new upvoting economy, where you define the settings of distribution and inflation at token creation. Of course, this is merely another interface for the token itself, which you can use in various way, additionally to the TokenBB forum, the ScotTube or the Appics app.

Conclusion

Is this the land of milk and honey we have dreamed about for so long? I guess we all have to wait and see where this is going. Just make sure that you participate in as many of these blooming ecosystems as you can and want because the time to get started is now. All these new reward pools are ripe to be shared among the few early adopters, who carry these services out into the world. I am ready. Are you?