This is a friendly reminder that in about 6 months (at the end of June next year) you will receive VICE tokens for free. All you have to do is to have a Steemit account and have some STEEM in it at that time. The more STEEM you'll have, the more VICE tokens you'll receive.
For those who are unaware, VICE tokens are tokens that will be used on a new blockchain that will be launched next year. This new blockchain is basically a copy of the Steem blockchain and will be dedicated to the porn industry.
The Vice Industry Blockchain will have very similar features to the Steem blockchain. You will be able to earn author rewards paid in VICE tokens, earn curation rewards by upvoting content, you will be able to vest VICE tokens, there will be a rewards pool, an internal exchange, you will be able to build other websites and apps on the VICE blockchain (like how Zappl, Busy, ChainBB, Steepshot are built on the Steem blockchain), so forth and so on.
Here are some snippets from it's whitepaper:
As described previously in this whitepaper, people that benefit in the Vice Industry Token include creators, viewers, curators, and commenters. It even benefits people who recommend or upvote content.
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The first dimension - the “rewards pool” function - allocates token distribution among participants according to a fixed structure. This is necessary to ensure prompt and transparent compensation for all participants. It also requires a sophisticated, specially-designed blockchain. This is facilitated by the use of next-generation blockchain platforms that we are using and developing. We are implementing the world’s most scalable public blockchain software platform capable of over 100,000 transactions per second similar to that powering the Steem and EOS blockchains.
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We anticipate that by late 2018, a large number of content partners and website operators will have embedded support for the Vice Industry Token in their online portals. Vice Industry Tokens will also be supported by a growing number of Vice Industry Token decentralized video portals in exactly same way. Once this takes place, all aspects of delivering and using adult content will change as users become capable of being rewarded for their attention and engagement.
Some info regarding the VICE token distribution.
Upon the token’s launch, 400,000,000 (10%) of the genesis tokens will be air dropped to Steem holders of block number 18,500 on the Steem Blockchain.
You can read the full whitepaper here: https://vicetoken.com/static/Vice_Industry_Token_Whitepaper.pdf
What time to be alive. You will be able to literally f*ck yourself and earn money doing so. :-)
Jokes aside though, I hope you do realize how much potential this has to become one of the most used blockchains and tokens out there.
According to a 2013 article from the Huffington Post, 30 percent of all video streamed on the internet is porn and that porn sites receive more visitors each month than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined. Now imagine what could happen when people find out that for the first time ever they can earn money by consuming porn. The adoption potential for the VICE blockchain is enormous.
And to close this on a positive note. I hope more and more people that are afraid about the uncertainty of the future, start to see how these new technologies that are coming to fruition, like machine learning algorithms, automation, blockchain, and so on, also create completely new jobs and ways to earn money. Think for a second, how many of the jobs we have today existed 50 years or 100 years ago? Quite a lot. Yes, technological revolutions destroy jobs, but they also create a whole lot of new ones as well.
You are not helping yourself by having a negative frame of mind when thinking about the uncertainties that exponentially evolving technologies are responsible for. Be more hopeful and let your mind be more creative when thinking about the future. Be ready to change your world views. Be ready to always learn new knowledge. Be constantly ready to adapt.