Is it possible for unbanked content-creators to buy groceries with online income - without showing ID? I think it should be!
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YouTube has demonetized their site for truth and alternative media, and banning 'borderline' content, including cryptos. FaceBook censors the truth about the banking cartel, cannabis curing cancer, and everything else that matters. All the mainstream media and big tech companies collude to censor alternate voices and keep the status quo going as long as they can. Meanwhile, cryptos continue to develop, and the crypto world appears close to piecing together its own functioning economy, almost separate from the legacy economy. Monetization of content is finally starting to happen for the average person, and a new future seems possible.
I'm concerned that the coming changes aren't going to be soon enough. A lot of people are losing their livelihoods on YouTube and other mainstream platforms RIGHT NOW. Truthers, libertarians, cryptocurrency users, anyone to the right of center, etc. Something is coming to a head, and it doesn't feel like the 'alternate' world is ready for it.
Money
Precious metals were my focus in the early days, and I consider gold and silver to be real money. So it might seem strange to some that I've never managed to monetize anything I've done online (since having to close my collectible card business when I was homeless a few years ago). I racked up 9000 subscribers on YT, with 700 high quality original uploads, despite heavy shadowbanning. Been seen 2.8 million unique times (that number dramatically understated of course). Asked my subscribers in 2012 if there was any chance of getting donations to help keep my work going, and got completely roasted for it, and lost many of my supporters. "It's free to upload, you're just trying to scam us!" The idea of being paid (or even compensated for costs) was equated with fraud, theft, and corruption, especially in the alternate / "truth" communities. Along came Patreon a year later, and suddenly EVERYBODY started to get paid for their videos (and not get called an ebegging scammer shill), but I never agreed with Patreon's rules. My idea was just a little too early. I wanted something decentralized and less controlled by the system. I wanted my power back.
Enter: cryptos! As a monetary theorist, I was aware of it from the start, getting my people into Bitcoin in 2011 - 2013, years before all the big YT crypto channels had even graduated high school or heard of BTC. I never got views/subscribers for it, but I was always right about price predictions. At $1 I called the move to $1000, and then at $50 the move to $4000 coming years later, and even drew a guess of what the chart would look like, and it was EXACTLY correct - even down to dates and price levels! I've been able to see the market many months or even years in advance, from the very start. In dozens of major Bitcoin calls, most of them risky and contrarian, I've NEVER been wrong.
But I never managed to monetize.
I was even right in my warnings about fake cannabis legalization, fukushima, weather modification, gold and silver price manipulation, elite pedos, all the censorship we're seeing now, and so much more. Essentially nothing I covered in the early days of my channel hasn't gone from "theory" to "fact". But being right only gets you seen LESS on YT now. My channel got smaller and smaller, the better my videos got, the more production value I added, and the more right I was. Damn... the things I could have done, with just a few grand for the channel! But I was barely keeping food on the table.
For philosophical and moral reasons, I do not invest. Yes, I own some silver bullion as a form of private savings that holds purchasing power over time, but I'm not hoping for a moonshot. I'll use cryptos as a currency, but I don't try to get rich off them. I've written and spoken extensively on this for many years. I never try to profit off currency or money itself. I don't believe that adds value to the world, and in most cases, it drains value. We can't all use that strategy... somebody has to be doing real work and adding real value. Anyhow, if I want money/currency, I earn it. (Strangely, nobody respects this. Only 'winners' and 'successful' people get recognized, and most of them are just taking from the rest of us by investing in money itself, it's pretty backward.)
Which is why I believe being paid as a content-creator should be seen as a good thing, not a reason to hate someone or call them a shill or beggar. In the past few years, even creators of cat videos are saying "please send me superchats and Patreon payments to keep my channel going!" and nobody bats an eye. How quickly everything changed! So instead of investing (owning currency or money in the hopes that it appreciates in relation to other currency or money), I'm trying to earn.
Various attempts
I tried to earn here on STEEM, for example. In mid 2017 my subscribers finally convinced me to get a Bitcoin wallet, so they could give me some tips for making them wealthy. I had said all along I wouldn't invest, but that I'd own some once it became useful as a currency - which it had. I was gifted 0.2 BTC in total, by various subscribers. 6 months later, that amount was worth almost $5000, and I converted it entirely into STEEM to power up my earnings here. From that point, STEEM has lost over 99% of its value, leaving me with pennies from my initial nestegg. There's little hope that the price will recover, as STEEM has fallen from the # 5th crypto to the # 85th crypto, and continues to fall out of use and favor. If I ever get anything from my 3000 STEEM stack, I'd be amazed.
I've been shadowbanned and I'm being removed from YT along with everyone else, so I've been trying to establish myself off YT. I got a bitchute account and manged to move over 2 of my 9000 subscribers. Yes, 2. Then I did several original documentaries and uploaded them... managed to creep up to 7 subscribers, where I'm now stuck. I don't think it's an organic site. If you're not in the club, you don't get any views. Lots of crap content there is getting channels thousands of subs, so it's possible, just apparently not for reality-based content.
Flote.app is awesome. I'm not sure how it works exactly, but my photos and videos from last week were already gone. (UPDATED) I spoke with the staff, who assured me content other than live streams is permanent. I'm trying to build and maintain a library of content that helps people, so that's a good thing! There was probably just a glitch. I'm going to continue to experiment with Flote, and look into their monetization features which are coming any day.
I tried Brave, but to monetize, you have to give your biometric data (HD retina) or scan in your current photo ID issued by govt and provide the address WHERE YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT. Yes, they actually say it has to be where you sleep. So Brave ('the privacy browser') is out of the running.
Here's the question:
Can somebody without government ID, without a Smart device, without a bank account, and pretty much without ANYTHING except an internet connection, start uploading content to a permanent platform, without being censored, and WITH monetization they can spend locally?
Before you brush that off as an obvious "duh, yes!" please think about it. Is it truly possible?
If so, can you please tell me how? I have almost 1000 high quality video productions, at least 5000 high quality photos and memes, plus hundreds of articles, and more being generated every day. I won't use a Smart device, ever, and I won't give government ID or my biometric data like eyeball scans. I'm not a criminal, I'm just a semi-private person, with principles, and some restrictions imposed upon me I can't do anything about. Am I welcome in this world?
If so, where can I set up, in order to (for the first time in 12 years of full time work) fill my hungry tummy with what I produce for the cause? Not to mention, I'd like to start saving up for a new PC, as this one is very old, and the video card on it is burned out from all the videos it has processed.
Please list the steps, beginning with uploading my high-quality original content somewhere people will see it, and ending with me forking cash over to a local produce store and walking home with a bag of food.
Thank you so much for any and all information you can provide to help me! And I think millions of others are in the same boat, so you'll be helping them, too.
If I don't hear from you, I'll assume you've realized what I have - it's not possible yet. It may never be. The technocrats don't want privacy or decentralization. Everybody must be tracked and part of THEIR system. I've just never really liked being a slave, so I'm always looking for a way out of that. 12 years so far, and still no sign of it. Getting hungry.
PS: Am I asking too much? Perhaps the time has come that nobody can eat without first identifying themselves via government ID or biometric data? Was I too early in 2012.... and am I too late in 2020?
PPS: I see today CNN is suggesting crypto proponents are dangerous criminals. They lament cryptos for disempowering too-big-to-fail banks, facilitating the "dark market", decentralizing authority, risking national security, and yes, enabling terrorism. They're even upset that Palestinians are using crypto despite the best efforts of the Israelis to stop them. So you can see exactly where they're going with this. The head that we're coming to is pretty close.
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