While Steemit.com or Busy.org are amazing blogging platforms, different types of content need different content discovery mechanisms. That is why after spending two months on Steemit we have decided to connect our photography community BeScouted to Steem blockchain.
BeScouted is a photography community that connects businesses with photography industry professionals where everybody can create a contract through our unique casting tool we have developed and find members for their TFP photoshoots or find paid work in visual media creation sector.
Apart from that, everybody can create their portfolio and since it is on Steem blockchain receive all the rewards just by sharing their photos just like on Steemit.com
Discoverability
Many of you who are on Steemit for a longer time know, how difficult it is to track content of your favorite authors, and get your work discovered even when you have thousands of followers. Since BeScouted is a photography community we concentrate of discoverability of quality photographic content and talents.Take a look and decide for yourselves where your quality content has more chances to be discovered.
We also do not believe in content discovery through the value of the rewards, that is why BeScouted jas semidiscreet voting mechanics, meaning that you do not know how many upvotes an image has before you decide to upvote it. We show the value of collected rewards for now, but the sorting of popular content is linear meaning the more upvotes you have the higher it will appear in POPULAR tab.
If you believe that your quality photography content does not get deserved attention try BeScouted and also keep in mind that anything you upload on BeScouted will also be cross posted on your Steemit blog.
You can read more about our Mission and Vision here.
SMT
Eventually we will be launching our SMT to fund further development and enhance functionality of the website as a native token will have so many utility options, like image sale micro transactions, settling payments in our SMT with the photoshoot participants for the business side as that will save a lot of time and money for all parties, unlocking different features depending on the amount held, fingerprinting images created through our casting system which would allow fair reward distribution through beneficiaries mechanism each time a transaction with the image is made, face recognition search for casting and many more to mention later in our SMT whitepaper.
We are already getting interest from VC's that are considering investing into BeScouted but taking money from corporate investors restricts liberty of action a lot. Venture Capitalist invest money because they want to get returns back as fast as possible. So they are pushing different monetizing options, initiating early sale of the company or mergers. We are not saying that all Venture Capitalist are bad, some of them are true visionaries that help with their network and experience, but we would like to stay independent for as long as possible and let the community decide the direction they want to see BeScouted moving in.
Getting SMT early.
Since it is not possible to build SMT yet, we can not start any kind of distribution now. After some thought we came up with a simple plan how we could reward those people that like what BeScouted is doing and would like to delegate some of their Steem Power to
account that is used to promote quality content on BeScouted and to introduce even more people to STEEM and Steemit.com.
Delegation.
BeScouted can not guarantee that SMT will be created because much of this depends on third parties and existence of technical possibility to create one. So far we have information just as everybody else that creation of SMT token will be possible and SMT whitepaper.
So delegation of your Steem Power is not considered and agreement or any form of contract. Only delegate your Steem Power to
HOWEVER. For those who will delegate any amount of their STEEM POWER to
- We will be tracking and recording delegations with this tool. http://www.steemreports.com/delegation-info/?account=bescouted.com
- Minimum amount of delegated Steem Power should be no less that 100 SP for the simplicity of tracking.
- You must hold your delegation for 6 months to be eligible to receive our SMT in initial distribution.
- 1 SP delegated for 6 month equals an equivalent of 1 USD of SMT that will be created.
For example. You delegate 1000 Steem Power to
If you withdraw your delegation before 6 months period there is no way can calculate proportions and ratios. Of course you will have our gratitude for your very appreciated input into development of a global photography community that makes lives of millions of freelancers easier.
So far we would like to thank the following supporters for delegating their SP:
Thank you guys for your support of our mission and for sporting hundreds of content creators on BeScouted as they are our fellow Steemians too.
If you do not want to delegate but you love photography, you can also support amazing content creators on www.bescouted.com by connecting your steemit account as you will receive all curation rewards as you do on Steemit.
And finally we would like to thank everybody else form Steemit community:
Developers who helped and are continuing to help us with the development of BeScouted on Steem blockchain.
SP Delegators for substantial support and selfless action towards the whole community.
Content Creators for creating amazing and engaging content.
Curators for Upvotes and Resteems.
We will continue to bootstrap BeScouted to become the biggest photography community in the world that rewards content creators.
David
