I’ll pay you to watch #videos
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Media is broken so I’ll pay you to watch videos▻https://medium.com/media/8d0ec046505ae0aa98fac1f2222da57a/href“How much is Apple/Microsoft/Google paying you to post this?”As a journalist I’ve heard this over and over. The feeling that media is bought and paid for is very pernicious, very aggravating, and very frustrating. And, unless something is marked “Sponsored” online, it is wildly difficult to tell if someone has paid for your eyeballs.So how do we separate paid #content from real content? And how do we reward users for viewing our paid-for message?One way is to pay content producers via micropayments or cryptocurrency. That hasn’t worked very well. Steemit and Civil, two solutions that weren’t made by actual journalists, are currently plummeting into the decentralized toilet.So we decided to (...)