I think times have never been as as exciting for this blockchain as they are now (maybe in first six months after mining started).

Finally progress is being made, progress beyond someone rehashing beautiful theories and compiling them in a nice whitepaper but zero evolution.

SMTs? 2017. Well they will finally happen.

I hear you on the ads part but at the same time ads work with a “central operator” like on LEO. Ads can make a dent and can contribute to build and pay awesome teams but in the overall picture they won’t make as much a dent as people always think. They definitely won’t get rid of the weak hands.

Sure, they would be great if used for marketing. But even better would be an ads market integrated in the chain, where users get their own share based on ads viewed on their content. But that would be a super intensive and costly development. One for which we currently just don’t have the views required and are eons away from still.

In a niche like finance, crypto, or tech (gadgets) they would work. And they could contribute to team growth and later also user acqui. But they’re not that big as many think. @khaleelkazi had the right vision tho: build services (leopedia, hivestats) then add ads. I would even go further on Hivestats and Leopedia and open those display units to Hivers/Leo to bid against and promote their own posts.

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