# Marketing ramble hack

Problem Statement

## Fiat Sucks
Crypto-inflation is planned and serves a purpose, but fiat-inflation is uncontrolled except by the wealthy/banks/government
backed by "nothing"
fees, transfer fees. taxes. credit card fees
strict borders, speed, transparency

## Crypto is hard
Pro-Fiat - Vendor charges the precise amount
Pro-Fiat - Accepted everywhere
Pro-Crypto - Crypto is more secure, vendor trustlessness

Learning curve
Mining and fees
Volatility
Regulatory framework
Keys vs passwords
value comes from?
mediaphobia on crypto
exchange
keys
wallet

Scroll, like, comment, DM --> No messaging, value?, sbds, rcs, vestsburning, account creation

## Social Media is Broken
shadow banning
Concentration of ownership
lack of content ownership
Deplatforming and censorship
Distribution of revenue
bigger org earns from the creator
Rigged/limited public square
favors big media
removes conservative voices

# Alternate Vision

## Why Crypto is good!
community
asset ownership
fast transactions
non-violent
feeless, borderless
"opt in," voluntary middleman
immutable, censorship resistant
broadcast can't be denied, "censorproof braodcast"
free speech delivered, transmission, message available everywhere
Say what you think

proof of brain
lifetime storage

## Why Steem is worth
Your momma's crypto
pulse of crypto
attention is worth something
gateway crypto
it's teh people/discord
give a place to write and connect
positive reenforcement
so much creativity
expose myself and supportive
Be your authentic self

Account Names
Support my friends
Speed
customer service
scalable
social tokens, everyone's money
diverse, global
usable
**community**
delegation
Account recovery
infrastructure/stability

### Nerd/DEV Community
Bandwidth Rate Limiting for Fee-less Operations
Proof of Stake
Proof of Brain

Crypto is hard
a. Steem makes addresses easy.
b. Steem splits key authorities (better than Bitcoin).
c. Steem has several ways to timelock funds.
Crypto is trust

Ease of entry

Media Broken
a. regain control of content
b. maintain chain of ownership
c. recognize/incentivize excellence
d. restore consumer/producer relationships
They're pushing the "public square" idea on private sites. Just use the Steem blockchain and host your own front-end.

everyone receives your post
no content control
comment wars are calmer
no shadow banning

Why I'm Here: It's easy to develop Steem apps and get instant eyeballs to try out my stuff.

# Stakeholders

Devs
Users
Investors
Businesses
Communities

## Needs

Organic promotion tools