>>57644
>Perhaps some kind of token for posts could be of value.
I think in order for people to be willing to pay tokens to post it would have to be for something special. Perhaps a site like Quora could monetize itself in this way. The people who answer the questions would receive the tokens that someone paid in order to post their question. It has to involve some kind of supply and demand like that. Nobody is going to pay anything, even fractions of a cent, just to shit-post since there are a million places where you can shit-post for free.
Of course Quora is also free. But my hope would be that monetizing it in this way could attract even more experts from various fields and make the service even better. It could still be a partially free service. It could adopt a mixed model wherein the experts & specialists who answer questions on the platform would have to do a certain amount of pro bono work each month before they qualified to receive tokens.
>It just continues fragmentation which is bad for bitcoin
I'm not concerned about fragmentation, or bitcoin. Wallets like Atomic Wallet facilitate crypto conversion between multiple currencies for minimal fees. And if fee-less cryptos supplant the current fee-driven model then it won't matter at all which crypto anyone uses. They can all be seamlessly exchanged with each other as needed. What you call fragmentation I just call the evolution of faster, better and cheaper-to-use crypto.
>I am not willing to spend 2 hours of time "earning"/"mining"/begging from faucets crypto to download a book.
I would, for a book that I wanted. But remember that I'm proposing a piracy network, not just a book piracy network. Print media was only an example of a type of piracy that is relatively untapped compared to others.
>I can readily pirate as well as the next person.
Yes but I'm thinking back to the Quora example. Quora is already a thriving coPost too long. Click here to view the full text.