I have a business idea that I've been debating where to launch. Steem seems like the perfect solution as I'm already here and invested in the community. My issue is the past scammy nature of some other apps makes me wonder how much will the community trust the next app?
It would be an app that can cross over everyday people into the crypto world without a need to understand anything that is going on behind the scenes. Allow them to toe dip into whatever blockchain I decide to launch on without risk. This ability IMO has the potential to be a game changer for the blockchain that we choose to launch on.
The one thing you should take comfort in is that while this community has been burned countless times, people here still have the desire and wherewithal to continue looking for legit projects to fund. The want to build steem up is strong, and hopefully sometime someone will build something that is worthy of the faith the community keeps putting into projects.
That has been part of the conversation I've been having. While some have said enough is enough I feel like there are still plenty of us around that want to see long term success of Steem and apps that are built on the blockchain. Had been talking with a couple people who feel that investors will be extremely cautious and it might be very hard to get them to pull the trigger. Hopefully that isn't the case as it will take some help to get this launched properly.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Steem blockchain is an open platform. If a scam project was built on it, what reflection is that on Steem itself? Such a suggestion is even sillier than saying a scam company being built on Microsoft Azure, for example, is a reflection on Microsoft itself or on how good of an option it is for other companies to build on Azure. Do you see how absurd that is?
I've seen more then a few people comment that they are done supporting apps built on steem in terms of helping fund them and delegating to them. People with some very serious amounts of liquid steem and SP. Now this very well may have been in the moment of being pissed at feeling taken, but it happens. Each person has their own threshold for dealing with being burned..or at least feeling like they have been burnt.
It's not about it being a reflection of Steem, just a matter of how do people feel about apps on steem right now. A discussion of what direction to move forward with this project has been going on with a few of us. One wants to go somewhere else, but majority is all pro steem including myself. But I can understand why there is concern and consider it a valid one hence why I felt it was worth gauging the openness of people to invest again.
Well said. The vast majority of Steem projects are legitimate and even things like DLive are not scams, even if they took advantage of Steem without long term commitment.
Really fraudulent conduct is much more common outside the Crypto space than within it. Most Crypto people and Steemians in particular are not naive, so are much harder to scam than normies.
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I'm sure that you are also aware of Steem-Engine and Tribes which can give you much more control of how you operate your project and prevent scammy behavior from impacting your user base.
Yes I am aware of Steem-Engine. Honestly I'm not worried about scammy behavior happening to my project, it's more the impact of past scammy behavior has had on the Steem community as a whole that was what we were talking about.
The ability to issue a token is a big factor in even considering Steem. Without that I'd have to look elsewhere.
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