D.Tube is one of the applications that I feel is going to really draw people to this blockchain.
A large part of the success of STEEM is going to depend upon the applications that are placed upon it. There are a lot of wonderful developments coming out. The challenge, as with any business, is remaining viable. There is an expense to running a business and D.Tube is no exception.
For this reason, a portion of the rewards a post earned on there went to D.Tube. This is quite common. The one thing that got people's ire up a bit is that it was 25% that D.Tube took off the top.
They are in the process of releasing update 0.8 yet are working out a few bugs in it. Nevertheless, they did release some information that is very exciting.
To start, D.Tube contests the 25% claiming it is actually 11%. I do not know what it is but wanted to put it in there for fairness.
Now to the good stuff.
D.Tube created a sponsorship program which is based upon the delegation one gives to it. Basically, their bot will upvote posts based upon your delegation which you will be paid the same as if you manually curated. One will also get his or her share of the beneficiary awards.
They also decided to cut the percentage they take. Instead of simply moving it to zero, they decided to return it in the form of curation rewards. What happens is the beneficiary reward for a particular post is taken and given back to those who voted for the post based upon the strength of their vote.
This is a great way to reward those who take the time to manually upvote posts on D.Tube.
It is nice to see they determined they are financially viable without keeping the beneficiary reward. They have about 80K SP to use for the purpose of covering their expense. With that type of nest egg along with the curation they receive by voting with over 2M SP, they should be able to cover all the expenses.
https://steemit.com/dtube/@dtube/curation-and-economic-update
This is wonderful since, I feel, this blockchain needs this application. D.Tube really puts this blockchain in the big league arena of social media. When there is a place for people to post videos, a competitor for YouTube, that is huge.
I am glad that D.Tube is going to be around for a long time while also giving back to the community.
So, if you want to earn yourself a little bit extra on your upvotes, head over to D.Tube to upvote posts.
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