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Voice.com social media on Eos – earn voice token by contributing

Voice.com will will be the new social media based on the Eos blockchain.

What is Voice?

“Voice is a transparent, rewards-based platform for creating, distributing, and discovering content. It aims to foster a new and trusted experience through identity authentication and transparent database infrastructure. Voice is built by and for its users. Most value is returned back to its community through Voice Tokens, a utility token that can be earned and consumed to acquire the attention of other users on the platform.” (voice.com)

The Voice Token

The Voice token is not comparable to crypto currencies like bitcoin or ether. The Voice tokens have utility within the voice ecosystem – you can earn them by publishing content like articles, or videos and you can use them to promote your content. Promotion means higher visibility and potentially more income.

Block.One – the company behind Eos.io and voice.com

Eos.io is the software for the Eos Blockchain and voice.com a social media application running on Eos. Eos it self is opensource, but Block.One, the company of the Eos founder (Dan Larimer) and Brandon Blumer is for-profit.

June first 2019, the big announcement

Uni June 2019 Block.One/Eos has announced some changes. They cooperate with the crypto currency exchange Coinbase. Coinbase offers an educational program (Eos EARN), where any user finishing the course gets 10 Dollar in EOS. But the most important thing is the Coinbase-listing. Now EOS has custody for institutional investors. This enables professional money entering the ecosystem.

Second: they have Web-Authent implemented in EOS.io 2.0: you can log in from any online browser. The Web-Authent signature can be used to sign blockchain transactions.

Third: EOS Virtual Machine is designed in a way that enables multi-threading, which is one step to inter blockchain communication without sharding.

and last: they have a social media app. Voice.com

The Beta version of voice.com has launched on February the 14th 2020.

Decentralized Social Media on Blockchain

To understand voice.com, one has to understand the history of social-media on the blockchain.

Dan Larimer the CTO of Block.One and developer of Eos and Voice.com started his journey with Bitshares. Bitshares is a decentralized exchange – an exchange without a central company running it. It is just code, a so called DAO (decentralized autonomous organisation).

After Bitshares, Larimer developed Steem – Steem is a decentralized platform for social-media and decentralized applications like games. Because Steem was a success and one of the widest used dPOS-chains, Larimer started to develop such a social media application on the Eos blockchain as well.

The following list is for educational purposes only! I have not extensively checked any of the sites other than Steemit and Publish0x. Be aware of scams! To play on the safe side, check out my post about earning crypto with blogging.

Next-Gen Social Media – many have tried, but only a few will survive!

NameLinkRankStats/ similar to
Reference Steemit.com https://steemit.com/Global 6,357; USA 6,637one of the most popular decentralized social medias so far
Adamant https://adamant.im/Global 1,635,666; Russia 220,115Instant-Manager
Akashahttps://akasha.world/Global 1,742,612; Brazil 252,256?
Bearshareshttps://bearshares.com/Global 1,510,372; Nigeria 8,536Steemit Clone, used in Nigeria
Bitchutehttps://www.bitchute.com/Global 12,130; USA 4,437BitTorrent-based Youtube
Bit-Tubehttps://bit.tube/Global 47,927; Brazil 10,783Youtube and Twitch
Delegate-Callhttps://delegatecall.com/Global 354,758; USA 807,628looks inactive
e-Chathttps://echat.io/Global 3,565,394; Turkey 595,735like Facebook and Whatsapp
Global Social Chainhttps://gsc.social/Global 18,294,286; UK 2,486,376
Goloshttps://golos.io/Global 53,844; Russia 5,167Steem-Clon
Hyperspacehttps://site.hyperspace.app/
Indorsehttps://indorse.io/Global 748,665; India 61,721
Karmahttps://www.karmaapp.io/Global 2,237,077; USA 2,963,188Mobile only, based on Eos
LYBRYhttps://lbry.io/Global 115,782; USA 115,245Like Youtube
Mastodonhttps://joinmastodon.org/
Mindshttps://www.minds.com/Global 19,819; USA 8,370Videos, Bilder alles getrennt, wie das frühe Youtube oder Myvideo, schlechte Qualli in den USA recht beliebt
Narativehttps://narrative.network/Global 2,672,295; USA 741,154Medium basiert? Werd ich mir anschauen
Nexushttps://nexus.social/Global 10,706,153; China 661,148
Obsidianhttps://obsidianplatform.com/Global 5,196,287; Brazil 761,334
OnStellarhttps://onstellar.com/Global 739,248; USA 261,121similar to Youtube
Props Projecthttps://www.propsproject.com/Global 9,438,332; USA 4,223,589
Publish0xhttps://www.publish0x.com/Global 426,694; USA 148,044similar to Steemit.com
qBaohttps://www.qbao.fund/Global 13,101,696; China 687,090
Sapienhttps://www.sapien.network/Global 959,978; India 126,580ICO was finished at 3. April 2018
Scyptohttps://scrypto.io/Global 2,600,874; Slovenia 6,476like Steemit but only on Russian
Sereyhttps://serey.io/Global 2,134,611; USA 2,321,889
Smoke.iohttps://smoke.io/Global 435,821; Slovakia 9,267Social Media around Cannabis
Sociall.iohttps://sociall.io/Global 2,777,008; Romania 48,458
SocialXhttps://socialx.network/Global 2,764,110; USA 3,490,284
Solahttps://sola.ai/Global 255,236; USA 287,405Like Instagram
SoMeehttps://somee.social/Global 2,721,588; USA 2,464,958
Spherehttps://sphere.social/Global 427,395; USA 156,824100% Facebook Clone
The Abysshttps://www.theabyss.com/deGlobal 34,574,253; Russia 3,328,786Content-platform for Gamer.
Trybehttps://trybe.one/Global 324,930; USA 307,764
WaleShareshttps://whaleshares.io/
WeKuhttps://weku.io/Global 178,064; Venezuela 5,831Steemit Clone
Yourshttps://www.yours.org/Global 95,517 USA 70,490Like Steemit with Bitcoin Cash.
YOWOWhttps://yoyow.org/Global 2,597,488; China 401,707Chinese Platform

[Ranking 2019, estimated by https://www.similarweb.com/]

Social Media which implements Crypto

NameLinkRankStats ähnlich wie
Signalhttps://signal.org/?encrypted Instant-Messenger
Tapatalkhttps://akasha.world/15-20 Million monthly active usersGateway App for online Forums
Telegramhttps://bearshares.com/200 Million active usersa widely used messenger. The ICO is for accredited investors only.
Facebookhttps://www.bitchute.com/Facebook plans to implement the stable coin LibraUntil 2013 Facebook already had its own coin called Facebook-credits

Social Media on the Blockchain the future?

Having a tipping service on social media is the next logical step. Using a centralized service is proven to be not effective, since regulator have shown to shut those centralized services down: Facebook credits and QQ-Coin are the most prominent examples.

Reddit uses a non-monetary token system (Karma)

Facebook has announced to implement a consortium-chain based crypto currency called Libra. A consortium-chain is a blockchain in a closed setup. Permissioned “V.I.P.” validators are validating the ledger. In the case of Libra it is a consortium of 100 companies and organisations.

Voice is the attempt to officially run a system like this, which is compliant with US-regulators on the Eos-Blockchain.

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