qbase

speculation is fine (even good!), but _it must bridge a gap between fundamental sources and sinks_. Without a fundamental long-term sink, speculation chaotically bleeds to zero, every time.

If tokenized content is to work, someone has to do the hard work of designing a system with a real, large fundamental sink.

my 2qq on this as someone who tried to get people to 'coin' posts about a year ago and has been mulling it over since:

for context, the aim of qbase is to use crypto incentives to drive valuable, unique social queries onchain, to become canonical foci for future discussion and research. users can pay a smol fee in $qq to coin a query, and will receive smol fees back whenever users choose to save their answers to their profile.

i flirted hard with the idea of flaunching a coin for each query, using fee splits, and pooling with the eco coin for some defi whirligig, but ive settled on a simple erc-721 for attribution. the content can and i think should derive its value within an app/eco, or as a lego.

creators should earn from their engagement — charging more to engage bc someone bought in before you feels counter to the nature of content tho. izho

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