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RE: Steemit.com is now Open Source
Bitcoin is open source and I believe has been from day 1. There are countless clones and the reason the clone coins haven't surpassed BTC is because they don't solve a problem that Bitcoin has. The ones that have thrived have done something else.
Same goes for Steem, someone just can't copy and paste the code and, viola, make a brand new Successful social coin. Early bird gets the worm. Having Steem as open source will only encourage people to check and modify the code to make it better.
Price of Steem will rise and fall based on the merits of its utility beyond its current speculation phase. Having it open source can only help.
Steem has been open source all the time. This announcment is about the Steemit website code. :-)
Ooopsie, well I'll take the money and run. :/
Sorry about that guys didn't mean to spread disinformation about Steem code. But on a side note, Steem would be nothing without Steemit.com. In fact correct me if I'm wrong the two could not exist without each other so open sourcing one without the other is in essence not open sourcing the entire project.
Anyway the above is great news.
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The crypto-economization of the social spheres, in my view is in it's earliest phaze of adoption/integration. Communities come in many flavors . Did that chinese steemit-like site (yoyow) ever launch?
Steemit was inspired by reddit, but instead of cultivating a non-monetary reputation based ecosystem (karma), Dan and Ned decided to go for the money. Which makes $ense. I like to think of 'crypto-economization' as a feature that can be interwoven throughout a community. The same is true with socialization itself. The opportunity to socialize is just another feature that has been encoded and made available for a cluster of nodes to engage with. There will be many 'steemit-like' portals (crypto-economized ecosystems.) Just like there are now many sixdegrees-like social spheres.
That said, steemit is going to be a massive success. Especially the more decentralized and distributed it becomes.
@coinz yes Each cryptocurrency here is to solve a specific problem and thus running eg golem, maidsafe coin, etc