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Re:Better than free: A crypto business model for apps by choxi on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:34PM (#15233590)
Has anyone built a forum like HN or Reddit on top of Ethereum yet? It would be a really interesting experiment to have a decentralized forum where upvotes earn tokens.
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Re:Better than free: A crypto business model for apps by CryptoPunk on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:43PM (#15233669)
The closest thing is Leeroy:

https://leeroy.io/i/feature

But social applications are prohibitively expensive right now. Unless something like Plasma (Ethereum sub-chains) becomes a reality, Ethereum will only be useful for financial/authentication applications I think.

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Re:Better than free: A crypto business model for apps by felipeccastro on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:48PM (#15233706)
steem.io - I believe it's not on top of Ethereum, but it's the same idea.
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Re:Better than free: A crypto business model for apps by zweicoder on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:16PM (#15234663)
There's one called steem.it that sounds similar to what you're saying - users use steem to upvote posts
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