CHAPTER 10

Coda

The Future of Cryptosocial Media

What is the usefulness of social media? Besides being a huge time-suck that detracts people from what is really important in life, does it serve a useful function? If it does, then how is cryptosocial media different? Or, is it different?

If I were to judge what cryptosocial media developers consider to be the function of their product right now, I’d say that most of them believe the important part of their product is the crypto part of it. That is, I’d say the makers of Steemit, Minds, Loop, Publish0x, Torum, and most of the other blockchain-based social media projects currently in operation think that minting, buying, selling, trading, and discussing cryptocurrency is the real value of their ...

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