Differences Between Writing Platforms

I’ve been using multiple writing platforms, and each one seems different, requesting a distinct style of writing and structure of our posts. I have tried blogging previously but did not find the time to expand in this field, so only started again just a year ago.

Newcomers in crypto are distracted from research and invest more they can afford into projects they found on Twitter or YouTube.

Often investors are lured in crypto with promises of vast wealth, millions of dollars, and better living conditions. Take Dogecoin as an example and how absolutely everyone in Doge today is just there assuming Musk will “pump” the price so they will profit from a new ATH.

For crypto writers, it is difficult to avoid writing about popular topics and avoid hype. However, it is imperative to explain the dangers and present the utility of tokens above mere speculation.

Either a forum or writing/blogging platform each has a unique style and requires a distinct approach.

Crypto Forums

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Bitcointalk

I am using tech forums for more than a decade and have been in crypto since mid-2017, having started from the bitcointalk forum, posting charts, looking into hundreds of new projects.

In bitcointalk trolls thrive, since toxicity is encouraged starting from the top (admins) to the bottom floor of new users trying to find reason in this mess.

The greed, the constant power struggle, and the demand to follow the herd will make any beginner have a tough time there. The mob behavior attacking anyone asking serious questions is not a characteristic of forums, yet it thrives on bitcointalk.

There is simply no exchange of new ideas in that forum, but a lair for the BTC cult members instead.

Bitcointalk hosts a vast database of content, still the most useful discussions occurred until perhaps 2015. Can't say it was all pure and honest previously, since the monetary factor of Bitcoin, was always attracting speculators and even worse, scammers.

Reddit

This toxicity of the BTC maximalists has also spread at Reddit in subreddits such as r/bitcoin and r/cryptocurrency, where admins censor knowledge, logic, and constructive criticism if they feel they don't favor their investments (bags).

Currently, I am only reading crypto-related material in the Reddit forum, at subreddits r/btc and r/bitcoincash, where the Bitcoin Cash community posts with no censorship encountered. However, the toxicity levels at Reddit prevent sane human beings from being active and the most polite criticism you will receive will be similar to "I've read way worse than that".

If anyone plans to post or comment on Reddit, get ready to waste countless hours of your productive life, answering to sophisticated trolls that have mastered the "art" of debating even with extreme positions that don't make sense to any sane human being.

Other Crypto Forums

I've used more crypto forums, such as Cryptotalk and Altcoinstalk in the past, and frankly, I found more friendly and cultivated members in these two forums rather than bitcointalk.

The age of crypto-writing platforms appeared after the explosion of crypto in 2017 and I've been part of many of them, all having a different structure from forums, and differences in content demands.

Forums, though, are just that, you can't expand too much in a topic, but write a few sentences, ask questions, and expect short answers on the point. If more details are required, there are always better sources to discover.

Writing Platforms

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Writing or Blogging platforms are websites that give content creators the option to present their work in detail. We write any kind of articles we want and present our thoughts, our experiences, our investment strategy, we review websites, other platforms, technology.

We inform our readers and we present our case with the highest quality possible to create an audience that would love to read our new article.

Read.cash

The best writing experience I've had is by far with read.cash. There is no second, and if users publish their content originally at read.cash and use the promotional options of boosting and notifying their social media, viewers increase.

Read.cash is about anything, not just crypto, so any author can test it with patience as quality work is always rewarded.

I have reviewed the read.cash platform on Medium previously: Meet Read Cash: A Crypto-Platform for Freelance Writers and hope that it attracted a few writers from that platform.

Read.cash is a better service than Medium, and the latest numbers from the stats page give us an indicator that interest is rising.

Medium

Medium has been on the top-200 of internet websites for years. Many popular personalities use it often to present their case on subjects they feel a "blog" will help them better. It can be used for anything and is divided into publications (communities) that may boost an article in numbers.

It has a monetization feature but only for selected countries. Currently, due to the recent change of payment systems, I've completely removed paywalls from my articles at Medium, since the payment wasn't important enough.

However, I may experiment later and become a partner with Medium again.

Read.cash and Medium share similarities in terms of content. We write with a structure like an introduction, the main body, and a conclusion. Forums and some other platforms don't require this.

Medium is a top SEO website, but it may not deserve this place concerning crypto-related content.

Popular influencers of any field usually reach the top on Medium with ease, since they have large followership from social media. Although, crypto-influencers usually publish less important topics than the average crypto writer.

Noise.cash

With noise.cash users can write about anything and tip each other with BCH in the form of cents handed out by the platform. Marc De Mesel is the reason noise.cash works, and it is used as an intelligent advertisement for Bitcoin Cash.

Nothing similar has been previously released to support any other cryptocurrency and points to the fact that Bitcoin Cash works for the modern demands of the digital age.

Noise.cash demands are not about writing lengthy articles, but about being used as a social media platform. It is similar to Twitter in a sense, but without restrictions in characters.

Publish0x

I tested Publish0x for a while, months ago.

My main issue with Publish0x is the view numbers are easily manipulated and give a false impression of high traffic and viewers.

Even the author of an article can just keep refreshing the page and watch the views counter going up. The views counter can easily be manipulated and does not constitute proof of traffic on Publish0x. Frankly, I haven't found any website counting views from the IP of the author but only seen this on Publish0x. Websites as read.cash and Medium are strict and exclude the repeated views from the total.

It also seems the content on Publish0x is promoted sometimes according to the admins' preferences, which I certainly didn't like finding out.

Finally, the payments are too low. We can justify this because of the lack of funding and the low payments received by ads. I expect the traffic to be a lot lower than the number of views presented for popular posts, and the advertisement systems have specific demands for payments that require clicks.

Publish0x often hosts crypto writing contests that pay in cryptocurrency and the top places will receive good rewards. Probably a decent choice for those writers hunting contests.

Hive, Steemit and the rest

Hive and Steemit are content rewarding platforms, offering tokens as tips to the authors.

The style differs from the rest writing platforms we analyzed above since the length of posts is mostly similar to forums and almost all the Hive published content doesn’t expand into details at all.

Hive and especially Steemit have some issues where users with high tipping capacity, because of their staked tokens, are upvoting with huge tips various useless posts of alt accounts they created. The whales can manipulate the tipping system and do it frequently, to extract income.

It all depends on the whales and demands buying and staking tokens from the beginning.

Certainly entering a platform and watching a recipe receiving $100 as a tip raises questions, while high-quality articles remain with no upvotes and no views at all.

Interaction with comments is also quite limited, as we only find organic comments in the top users’ articles.

Most of the posts gaining attention at Hive were related to Hive, Splinterlands, and BTC. These are topics I am not interested to write about.

However, those that enjoy writing about Splinterlands and Hive, will find dedicated followers there and achieve decent rewards and likes.

There are some more forums and platforms, and according to some promotional campaigns they are running, they gained some popularity recently.

Torum is one of them, but it asks for phone number verification so I instantly dismissed it. Some more I've tested previously did not attract me enough to stay, so until now these are those I've found to be working for writers.

In Conclusion

All platforms prefer the writer to bring original content and not republish it elsewhere. We can understand the reasons, and why this helps a platform have a dedicated content creator that doesn't republish the work in a dozen more websites.

Read.cash fits better for me, and it is recommended to everyone. The tipping system is sophisticated and mostly rewards posts that deserve so. It doesn't require writing about certain topics and capable users will get rewarded for unique content.

I've also often visited memo.cash for months, but only used it to like a few posts and find a different perspective. With memo.cash any action is permanently recorded on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, thus rendering posts and actions uncensorable. Memo. cash is an interesting idea, although sometimes it takes a while to load pages and with slight developments, it could reach higher traffic.

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