What I hope to see with read.cash

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5 years ago
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I believe read.cash has the potential to become one of the most important projects in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. There is a reason this is the third iteration of this idea being built on top of BCH. First, there was yours.org, followed by honest.cash, and now we have read.cash. Yours went the way of BSV, but at this point in time, honest.cash and read.cash are competing with each other to be the top destination for content creators looking to earn BCH.

So why do I think a site like read.cash is so important? According to Gabriel Cardona, "Bitcoin Cash is digital cash for the internet nation." I think that's exactly right. As important as merchant adoption might be, I think using BCH over the internet is the best way to experience it as "magic internet money". Try sending a stranger on the other side of the planet a nickel or a dime for something they wrote. You can't. But you can send them as little as a penny's worth of BCH, instantly, and basically for free, using the Bitcoin Cash network.

I also think that the read.cash community can be seen as a microcosm of the greater BCH community. We need people to see the benefits of joining this platform or it won't survive in the same way we need people to see the benefits of BCH for its survival. The same applies to the content creators themselves. This platform will allow us to see what the market values in terms of content in a way that wasn't possible before.

If you like to write, draw, create music, or anything others might value, I invite you to join read.cash and give it a try. Why post something on Reddit or Medium or Youtube with virtually no chance of making any money for your efforts, when you could post the same thing here and potentially earn some BCH instead.

And if you're not a content creator? Join anyway. Be a patron to those who create content you find valuable. What if by supporting the work of others, you create value for yourself?

I'm so glad to see read.cash and honest.cash competing in this way, and I'm definitely looking forward to watching how these projects evolve.

May the best builder win.

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I agree. And the fact that there are several projects competing to become the best platform with a similar proposal makes it even better. I hope this really drives growth. By the way, I must confess that I sympathize more with read.cash than with honest.cash (soon "Hymm") and his SLP token proposal, although I am not closed to the idea of being surprised in the future by Hymm with a wonderfully model functional and praise its brilliance.

References about the rebranding of honest.cash and its token:

«Honest Cash announces Rebranding and Token Sale»

«We Listened to the Community - the Token Will be Based on SLP Technology»

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Actually, we've had the idea for read.cash for like a year, but then honest.cash launched and we kind of canned the idea, because seemingly it was done. But then the post of Kain_niaK post about how bad the experience on Honest was really re-ignited the idea. By that time we were struggling with a blog on our other site (FreelanceForCoins.com), so we've decided that we should build it ourselves.

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5 years ago

Interesting. I didn't know that read.cash was from the same creators as FreelanceForCoins.com, my best wishes for both projects.

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5 years ago

Thanks! :)

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5 years ago

Your absolutely right!

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Why post something on Reddit or Medium or Youtube with virtually no chance of making any money for your efforts, when you could post the same thing here and potentially earn some BCH instead.

This is a pretty important point!

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5 years ago

Good point indeed but I have received a little BCH from users through chaintip in the BTC reddit community. But Considering the fact that y’all allow all types of writers who writes based on stuff from A-Z instead of just one topic “crypto”, it is definitely awesome, It’s just that we need to give some push to other topics as well to accomplish the purpose of this website, I believe that’s your objective. Let me know if you have something else on mind.

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Yeah, you've got that absolutely correct. We want to be a great publishing platform for all topics - be it photography, technology, crypto, programming, etc.. I'm kind of hoping to see less of politics and conspiracy theories, but we won't restrict it.

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5 years ago

It would not be bad if in the future it is also possible for users to send send SLP tokens like USDH or something like that. However, at the moment that it supports BCH and works efficiently it is enough; In addition, the UX in general of read.cash seems pretty good to me.

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5 years ago

That is something that we've discussed before we even created read.cash (building it on stablecoin on BCH), but we didn't since you need BCH anyway to move SLP tokens and with new "postage protocol" that might become reality. https://twitter.com/readcash1/status/1196734853699510273

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Token support can wait, there are things on the roadmap that seem more important, the main thing is Bitcoin Cash and in that aspect read.cash is going very well. Soon we will see if postage turns out to be something useful.

By the way, it would be great if the comments can be cited...

You can convert the comment dates to links so that their URLs can be copied.

On the other hand, I tried to archive read.cash content at archive.today and archive.org/web but it generated an error. Is it for something on the page?

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Yeah, the links to comments is something we need to expose. They are there, just not shown. About archive.org - I think it's their error, not ours.

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It's seems to be a better platform compared to steemit and reddit. Hope this concept of platform will have a huge value in future.

Am already decided to shift to this platform for future publication.

Thank you @Cain for this detailed information about read.cash

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