Peerhub: Bringing Steem Beyond Social Networks To The New Economy!
Introducing Peerhub to the Steemit CommunityDan spoke about Steemit's plan for world domination here and described how the Steem network can extend far beyond just a social network and can be used to bootstrap an entire economy using Steem Dollars. I agree!
The Peerhub marketplace will now be focused around Steem dollars and the Steemit community. Just like Craigslist you can post listings for Goods, Services and Housing.
Here is an example of what a listing looks like: Here is an example of the Gallery View of listings:
Here is an example of an AirBnb-style room listing
The Peerhub Difference
I started Peerhub in early 2014 and worked on it for a year before putting it on hold. It is meant to be a Web 2.0 upgrade to the old online marketplaces that include Craigslist, Ebay and Etsy. It is meant to use the best new blockchain money of the world and be a foundation for a New Economy. Peerhub started with Bitcoin as a payment option, but I wasn’t convinced mainstream users would spend or want to learn about Bitcoin. People don’t want to spend an entirely new and volatile currency and Bitcoin owners really want to hold Bitcoin as an investment just like gold. I had Peerhub waiting in the wings until a strong cryptodollar solution came along and am confident Steem dollars and the Steem community will be a perfect fit for this platform! I expect that the Steem dollar will eventually become much closer to parity with the US dollar and that there will be much more liquidity in the near future, so let’s do this!
Open & Social Platform
Peerhub is meant to be an open and social platform. However, you can remain anonymous on the platform if you want because all you need is an email address to sign up. The social revolution of Facebook and Twitter hasn’t extended too far into marketplaces yet, although Etsy and Airbnb have led the way. People make purchase decisions based on social influence and trust so there is definitely a huge opportunity for more open and social marketplaces
This marketplace platform was designed around making things very easy to use and our goal is to maintain a minimalist and intuitive UI/UX. We also want to keep the website performance high and loading fast. Our core philosophy is making things simple, easy and fast. Excluding the time to find a photo and write a product description, it should take less than a minute to sign up and post an item!
Reputation System & Private Network
One of the key features of Peerhub is a very simple trust system. All you do is click a button to trust or untrust someone. The higher trust rating you have the more comfortable others can be with buying and selling from you. Anyone you trust is part of a Private network and you can list goods/services/housing to only those in your Private network if you choose. Sometimes you may want to sell an item for a deep discount or give away something for free to your Private network. Sometimes you don’t want to rent out a room to a stranger, but might be willing to rent to someone you know.
Rating System
Rating systems are difficult. Some are too complex and many aren’t meaningful. We have a simple four-point rating system that adds more meaning than Ebay’s three-point rating. We have the following: Love, Like, Neutral, Dislike. Hence with the Love button you gain a greater ability to distinguish between products & services. We will also allow both buyers & sellers to review and comment on each other.
You can communicate with other members individually, as a group in your private network or in a forum with the entire community.
This is great news to read and reminds me of a posting @ericvancewalton made about the ease of use of the platform itself. Thanks for sharing the magic with us, all for one and one for all! Namaste :)
You are welcome. because science must share @eric-boucher
This post is mostly a copy from:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemrollin/peerhub-bringing-steem-beyond-social-networks-to-the-new-economy
But hey if a recycled post gets views it's not all bad I guess...
I'm sorry sir, I have only to recall the report of @steemrollin ,because the knowledge you share a very helpful
IMHO this should not be encouraged.
I agree. That's why I flagged. My comment was just an observation. lol. We do eventually need to have a 'repost' button so we can occasionally recycle old content. I think we can just count any 'reposts' against the post count limit.. and also have a flag so that it won't be displayed as new... it's important for SEO and to incentivize people to put long term web content here...
Good idea. A challenge is how to reward reposts. I'm not sure if it's good to create a github issue for this. How do you think?
Thx. Sure I think a github issue would be good. I think we can keep reposts in the same reward pool, but since they won't be in the new category they won't get that much attention.. but that's ok... at least there is some opportunity to receive rewards for long term content and people can monitor and vote to support high traffic content. It's the easiest way to reward long term content without big changes. I would expect less than 1-5% of posts would be reposted in general and a post should only be reposted if it's getting SEO traffic like this: https://steemit.com/trending/@wadepaterson/how-a-trending-topic-is-bringing-thousands-of-viewers-to-steemit
Good job my dear friend @ akhyar36
Thank you, My prayers are always with you @jlufer
You're supporting?
What do you mean, I'm supporting, I do not understand your question?
As pointed out by @steemrollin above, this is plagiarism. You, with a 69 rep score, IMHO it's not good to support this.
When I made my comment I had not seen the thread of conversation, I just saw it when I asked the question. I do not support the plaggio.
In my beginnings by ignorance I have committed some errors and I have paid very dearly, today I can not support such conducts...
Downvoting for copy&paste. @biophil please check your bots.
Thanks for the continued notifications.
Likely related to the resteemed posts?
I've relied on cheetah in the past for plagiarism checking, but I may need to do something more robust.