Will Adult Content Be What Pushes Blockchain To Success????
It is no secret that the world of porn is big. While many have personal views against it, from a business and technological perspective, it is hard to argue against.
Adult content always seems to be at the forefront of technology. If there is one industry that is an repeated early adopter, it is the porn industry.
Back in the early 80s, the Beta machine was introduced. This was quickly replaced by the VHS machine which became the default video technology. Long before Blockbuster, when video rental stores were small, locally owned businesses, a great deal of the profits were made from the rental of adult videos. Porn was one of the major industries that propelled the Video Cassette Player and Rental markets forward. It was through the funding from porn that expansion and other initiatives arose.
A decade+ later, the Internet appeared. Can anyone guess what the majority of the early sites were? You got it....pornography. I read reports that stated over 90% of the early traffic was from this one sector. I wonder how many ISP connections were paid for simply so people could "get their rocks off"?
We saw the same thing occur with chatrooms, web cams, and streaming. Each of these breakthroughs were used heavily and early by the porn industry.
Today, this same industry is testing out robots, connected toys, and virtual reality. Some of the major technological initiatives are embraced by porn. In fact, pornography companies are well represented at technology trade shows. The companies employ a legion of technological personnel.
What cannot be disputed is the sheer volume of both people and dollars these companies command. In short, there is a huge following. Plus, contrary to the stereotype, the average consumer is someone with an above average income who is living next door to you. While still predominately male, there are also females and couples who are consumers. This is a large, well funded industry.
Which brings me back to blockchain. Can we look to the adult entertainment industry to bring blockchain to the forefront. At present, the STEEM blockchain is processing more transactions a day than any other at roughly 1.5M. This is a rather small number. The users on Steemit, the most successful blockchain app up to this point, is only 700K with 60K active daily users. While this is an accomplishment to be proud off, it is a rounding error in the numbers for porn companies.
As STEEM owners, how much impact could the NSFW crowd have on our holdings? Part of the success of the Internet was due to this industry and @ned has the goal to tokenize the Internet. We already see the Vice initiative which is essentially forking this blockchain for that very purpose.
Of course, the world of porn is wide and varied. There are many facets of it that will most likely end up on blockchain. Since it changes the entire distribution model, companies in that field have an interest. Pirating is a major problem. This is a way for them to counteract it.
Also, it is an industry where there is a lot of abuse. Hell, we are just starting to see the stories emerging of how abusive mainstream Hollywood is to females and younger boys. Can you imagine what takes place in the adult industry?
Blockchain is a way to give some control and resources back to those who are in the content. Like with musicians, another group traditionally abused albeit financially as opposed to sexually, part of the value of a post can be divided among the different parties. This is a radical departure from the present system where those in the videos make little.
We shall see if porn does for blockchain what it did for other technologies. Whether one is for or against it, the bottom line is you can expect it to show up. Porn is drawn to technology like ants are to sugar. Vice is just the first of many ventures we see.
And through it all, we might inadvertently get rich.
What are your thoughts?
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@DPorn is coming out SOON, probably within the week, you should check it out, I is running on the steem blockchain.
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I'm do some NSFW in my blog here. And I see many others here already. Interesting ones. Not just meaningless reposts of XXX vids, but a life blogs of models and cameramans. Even a NSFW cam show about politics and news!
Porn will boost steem. But what more - STEEM will change porn itself.
in this industry will be a success! since the volume of the market is colossal
The though of a social site to help mass adoption of crypto currencies (Steemit.com) is very valid, but probably not as effective as a porn site based on blockchain tech. Gonna be interesting for sure!
Historically, pornography has always been on cutting edge of technology. That is not likely to change anytime soon, too much money is at stake. I'm just worried about how the community can filter out exploitative forms of content. I'm fine is consenting adults preforming if explicit films, but we need to maintain some standards.
Might not need to filter it...if it is built upon the blockchain and a totally separate sight using a SMT created token, then it isnt on Steemit per se.
But if one is on Steemit posting, I guess we will have to see what the communities feature looks like when released. It might be that it simply is a different community that one chooses to join or not...like all other communities.
That's a very good point. I clarify, that when I said "the community" I was referring the users of whatever platform the videos originate on, not necessarily Steemit.
No telling.
wait wait wait.......... steemit.com/pornography
do you think we can get paid for jerking off? They could send you like a mini bitcoin mining unit in a fleshlight type device with a usb you plug into your computer to produce power that mines bitcoin.
We could get paid by the stroke for the mining portion then when you finish it could count as an upvote for the video like on Dtube.
hmmm they are already making a paid to watch porn thing on steem. i forget what it's called.
EDIT: just kidding 5 seconds of search later: It's called Vice.
https://steemit.com/static/search.html?q=paid+to+watch+porn
Vice?
And that is a fork...it isnt technically going to be on this blockchain although it is going to see an airdrop to the holders of steem.
I am not sure what is going on this blockchain...dporn is a venture some are trying to start.
We will see what effect that has on the number of user signing up, if any.
Well there is @dporn whichh is essentially dtube for porn makers. Also vice is trying to do the same thing with a hardfork [edited]
I don't think Vice is an Smt. They are forking and consequently running their own blockchain. Their airdrop can be anytime until 2021 according to their whitepaper. On the other hand, Dporn will be an SMT on Steem.
Right thats what it was. Ill edit that smt part out.
So true - hell I have over a thousand blog posts, but it's my fake porn pages that get all the hits - in some cases millions - like this one:
http://www.frot.co.nz/design/sift/the-biggest-free-porn-site-in-the-world/
boy does this page pull in some hits!
get hard and go off like a psycho hose beast , achieve lasting satisfaction with an anal implant, spray wonder love juice into hyperspace
One thing that cannot be denied...porn sells...and in a big way.
It has a huge following that brings a ton of traffic..very quickly.
I'm a simple man, I see Lisa Ann, I press like.
LOL I am impressed you know who that is...I have no idea...just a pick on google images.
Of course I was more a retro guy myself going back to the days of the small locally owned video rental store with the "back room" full of videos.
Thanks!
I'm a man of culture Task :D
I am sure it was for educational purposes only.
When I did enter the crypto world I was also looking for porn and gambling related coins. Oth made the internet. After going through al the coins, I did bought a small share a funfair.
After getting to know Steem, I was wondering how long it will take before I would stumble upon Xxx related content. Did not happen yet!
Don’t know how long it will take before there will be a porn blockchain but it will come. And probably it will be based on the ideas of Steemit and sublings. Will I invest in it? Hell no !!!
Vice is going to be a porn blockchain and that is going to happen in 2018....
So it will be happening.
I am not sure if STEEM ever sees it although from a token price perspective, it would create a lot of users signing up.