I'm a YouTuber thinking of doing a video featuring read.cash, does this even work?

telegram! the bch groups talked about it

no idea! thanks

Wow this is really cool. Where does this money go?

It goes into the wallet that was created when you signed up. You should have written down your 12 word seed in case you ever get locked out of your account. Also, in the top right corner, you'll see an option to "send your money" so you can send it to any wallet address you want. At the moment, the content creator gets 90% and the site is taking 10% to fund the project. Hope that helps.

ok awesome got it

You can install bitcoin.com Wallet on your smartphone and withdraw the money there if you want. Or use electron cash. It is really fun to make some transactions. Try it if you have never done it before. You can also use Bitcoin Cash on many websites https://acceptbitcoin.cash

To make it a bit easier:

memo.cash - uncensored site like Twitter, uses Bitcoin Cash for tipping and publishing (it costs about $0.001 to publish an update)

member - uncensored Reddit (similar to memo.cash in other regards)

honest.cash - similar to read.cash - upvotes with Bitcoin Cash

lazyfox.io - do things, get paid in Bitcoin Cash (currently in development of version 2, so new registrations are not allowed, as far as I know)

tipbitcoin.cash - tipping Bitcoin Cash for Twitch users

satoshiwall.cash - paywalls using Bitcoin Cash (publish content, users need to pay to reveal the contents)

SLP tokens - just like Ethereum tokens, but much cheaper ($0.001 per transaction), including our own fully-regulated stablecoin USDH

FreelanceForCoins - our other project, not specifically based on Bitcoin Cash, but you can pay nearly all freelancers in Bitcoin Cash (and many people do)

I think people (such as myself) aren't well aware of how to use markup features within comments, which is why they are going unused often.

Is there some guidance on this?

It's just a regular Markdown, same as on Reddit:

[text](https://link.com)

Will result in this: text

seems like this does not work on me on my articles

We do have plans for a better comments editor, but as usual - not enough time :)

Indeed - if he'd help drive new users to the site through his affiliate link, he might end up with quite a bit of income from other people producting good content here.

I hope he does and that the engagement levels seen here is good enough to motivate him to go ahead and act on it.

One thing I don't think many people have realized yet though, is that read.cash is a great tool to make people financially engaged in the distribution/marketing of other peoples content. Take this article for example: I just copied my affiliate link to it and asked people to come share how they use crypto, so that the video that may or may not happen could include more of the practical real-life stuff, and less about the money-bag-pumping speculation talks. If people do, and decided to use read.cash while they're here - more affiliates for me. <3

good idea

Awesome, thanks for the reply. By the way, where does this $1.50 go? I don't see it in my account balance

You should :) Maybe wait a minute or two until your browser updates the balance. You'll actually get 90% of $1.50 (10% goes to read.cash and affiliates if any). It also actually goes not in "your account", but rather into "your browser". We don't have access to your funds (or any user funds) at any time. Your browser generates a Bitcoin Cash wallet and keeps it strictly within your computer. Other users "upvote" by sending Bitcoin Cash to that in-browser wallet.

If you still don't see it after a few minutes - let me know, we'll try to see what the problem is.

Does every article need to be approved? Who approves it? What are the rules?

The rules change occasionally, sometimes we have an influx of trolls doing very nasty things, like doxxing unwilling people, posting nasty stuff, so we pre-approve 1-2 first posts of users. After the initial first few posts are approved - the following stuff is approved automatically. After the dust settles we usually turn this off and all posts go live immediately.

The rules are linked in the footer of each page. You also should've seen the gist of the rules before signing up. :)

Who approves it? Us. We are a small team of developers :) A very small team.

Like I said, it's mostly a way to stop the occasional wave of trolls doing obviously nasty things, there's nearly zero chance you won't get approved unless you're actively trying to post something obviously illegal or destructive. We can count all the rejected articles so far using just one hand.

There's no pre-approval process, but there is a manual post-publication process for removing content. What is shown on the front page however, is based on user engagement in terms of money moved around if I'm not misstaken.

You might want to read a bunch of articles by @Read.Cash - he/she/it/they tend to write an article on every new feature they make to let people know about it, so most things are explained in an article by them at some point.

There's no pre-approval process

There actually is. After the some trolls from well-known competing camp tried actively to doxx some people, we've implemented a pre-approval process. A first few posts by a new member need to be manually approved. We turn this on and off based on the recent activity. If everything is quiet - new members go live immediately.

Oh, I see. That's a sad state, but the internet just keeps being the internet I guess :/

Sorry to hi-jack this discussion, but I'd like to make a quick simple proposal that improves usability: zebra-striping of the comments. Currently it's a bit confusing to know how said what when the comments start to nest a bit. (you have a name and icon above and below every comment but very weak association between content and author identification).

I wanted to give you a quick CSS that fixes it, but I see the comment section is a set of div's that have no semantic meaning so I can't do that without risking changing elsewhere to. Hope you can find a good quick solution that either gives a stronger association between author of a comment and the content of a comment, or a clearer visual separation between the comments themselves.

Do you mean like coloring the background, so that each line's background is either white or grayish?

yes, that is the solution I proposed. There are alternatives, like a stronger thick line one one side of a comment but not the other, or shadows, or some other visual tool to help separate the comments from eachother. (but not by distance - only by look)

Ok, we'll play a bit more with it to see how to improve it. Thanks!

zebra-striping of the comments.

I second that. I constantly read dialogs "the wrong way" because the author info is at the bottom of the post (in opposition to reddit which has it at the top). zebra-striping would help, but really: why not put author info above the post text instead of below? There is a visual indicator already after all: the vertical line at the left spanning both text and author info. Doesn't do the trick for me, though.

I constantly read dialogs "the wrong way" because the author info is at the bottom of the post

Same here. I've been holding off saying something about it because they're working on so many other things, but it really feels strange to me. Guess one can get used to it, but in the beginning it was mildly annoying.

yeah I see it now! This is really cool - needs dark mode though haha

Great! Dark mode is there on our Roadmap, for sure, though we have quite a few high-priority items before that one :)

FYI about the "seed words" - I've tried replying, but the comment was gone by the time I hit reply :)

Well, since your upvote button isn't red - at least we know that the wallet was in fact generated. Did you not have a "Please remember your seed" popup when you registered? Do you have any browser extensions like Privacy Badger or NoScript that might interfere with site's JavaScript?

thanks