Ive read about more and understand it better now. The value goes up on each cryptocurrency based on the security of the blockchain created by the miners. value goes up the more rare each coin is for mining it.

I do like the idea of getting paid directly instead of the platform profiting from our data and I completely agree that the investors need incentive to invest. Yet I'm very mixed about the advertising still. Mostly because it so easy for entities who leverage money to take over a platform.

Once you let some of it in, then it seems to take over and dampen the user interface. It should be very clear and obvious were an advertisement is, I feel it is manipulative to hide the ads within all the other content. I was using facebook as an example earlier but I feel this has also plagued other social media platforms like instagram, twitter, youtube, and many other great platform that now have a dampened experience for me now. Reddit is still more or less classy with the way they do there adds. Craiglist is the most amazing to me cause I haven't seen any sacrifice in user interface to make more money. I believe though that there is a way to find a balance between these two things.