Vice industry wanted to utilize an SMT on the STEEM blockchain for their project here
Later they changed their mind and decided to fork the blockchain instead and create their own blockchain but they would compensate steempower holders with an airdrop of VIT tokens.
This airdrop has been canceled last week. here
> “Today we announce that we will no longer be supporting any airdrop to Steem holders. VIT will instead reward only direct participants of the VIT crowdsale."
I guess first they didn't want to wait for SMT's and then later regretted the airdrop thing as well.
Which is ok, I wish them all the best with their project anyway.
I do think they have a lot of work in store for themselves now. They will have to run their own blockchain, get servers, witnesses and all that.
But they are a big industry so I'm sure they can manage.
For smaller industries or communities, an SMT would be so much easier to implement.
You will get all the benefits this blockchain has to offer without investing in all that backend stuff.
O and if you don' t know yet, we have our own little adult project being developed on the blockchain.
It's called dporn.
I talk about it more in my vlog (from @ 2:05)
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Good morning man, glad to hear you are super excited for some adult content :D :D
A good listen today, I enjoyed the 'little bit different'.
I wasn't aware that Vice changed their minds about the airdrop and have chosen to fork. As you suggest, it will be a good to compare how Vice get on with the additional work with another project that go straight in with the more straight-forward SMT approach.
Others projects may look at these early test cases to make a decision. I hope it goes smoothly for Vice, and if not, they can always apply some lubrication I guess! :D
Have a good day!
@teknow | March 20, 2018, 1:46 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [
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You are very wrong actually.
The fact that they forked the steem blockchain over SMTS says a lot.
Exyle spelled it out for you. Rather than use an SMT (which is a non existence atm) they chose to go through all what Exyle described...
- Team, Servers, Witnesses, Developers, etc.. etc..
Sure they are a Big Company, and to be honest, I wondered why they didn't do what they did back when they announced they were interested in SMTs.
There was clearly an issue. Either between the two entities (Steemit Inc + Vice) or they could not reach agreement under representation. Or, they did not see SMTs as a solution.
Either because of the delay in their existence or in the way that they would be implemented.
There is much more to this.. and there is much more to SMTs. I've had this hunch for a while and have come across certain things that hint towards some underlying issue(s). It just doesn't make sense that they would take so long. I don't think that the team is incompetent. I DO think that they know how badly steem needs their existence. It only leaves one wondering why... why are they so delayed.
Communities... at least... fucken hell steemit Inc.
I've often wondered whether porn would do well on a blockchain.
The lure of VHS, DVD, Laserdisc, then the internet for porn was anonymity. Prior to these technological wonders, the option was theaters or peep show.
I'll also have to do some "research" to see what user information is captured when you visit. Because, as we all know, with the blockchain, our grandchildren will be able to look at the history and tell their friends that "My grandpa use to watch this video back in the 'teens"
:-)