I feel compelled to comment. I've offered several suggestions back when I was blogging here. But one idea that seems so simplistic but no one even talks of it.

A Hybrid model where the front end(s) allow users who could care less about Blurt participate on their site. It would open up impulse buying potentially as they see accounts that are getting paid for the upvotes.

Perhaps offer something like an account starter, where the front end owner charges a fee for different levels of membership if buying crypto is to difficult. We need to quit pretending the masses want the headaches of keys and such. Most just want to log in and do their thing.

Having different membership levels one could assign x amount of Blurt as part of the package deal to perhaps skirt the need for all the hoops the governments keep throwing in the mix.

Free level- No ability to be rewarded or reward others. Nothing they post goes to the blockchain, just stays on the site they posted it on.

Bronze level- 5.00 a month and one gets 500 Blurt and can collect rewards.

Silver level- 10.00 a month and one gets 1000 Blurt as part of the monthly package.

Gold level- 20.00 a month and one would get 2000 Blurt per month as part of the monthly package.

I pushed really hard for one of the devs here to make a plugin for WordPress as it's a catch 22 posting here as a blogger. You can't organize things here in such a way for real SEO as WordPress allows.

I'm still hypothesizing here, but perhaps the connection to WordPress could be part of the membership perks I was mentioning above. Might actually have members here who would actually pay to access both the Blurt incentives as well as connecting a real blog to the sites/chain.

It would be up to the front end owners to decide the various perks and memberships.

But really the way it stands now, we automatically push away most of the general public who could care less about some string of digits online being called money. They don't see why they would give up money in their wallet that spends where they need it for a string of digits a small subset of folks are calling money but can fluctuate at times so badly all gains are lost.

Add in the headaches of key security and whatnot, and we have been our own worst enemy as far as adoption.

Want more folks, understand what it is folks want and then offer it. This goes for readers as well. No one cares about the actifit reports, what you have for dinner etc. It screams as Lucylin mentioned the product IS the tokens. Even Larimer and Scott said so when they came up with the idea for Steem. It wasn't even initially meant to be used for social blogs. I seem to remember their initial idea was for insurance, but Larimer saw that would limit his getting as many coins into as many hands as possible difficult.

So, he half ass created blogging. So many run their own, or do the social spying sites like Fakebook.

Look at how people flock to Fakebook, eager to open their wallets for crap like extra specials to advance in their cheesy games. None of those folks signed up to give their money away for games, but once they were there the money just began flowing from their wallets to Zuckerbergs world domination plans.

And that's all I have on that. I wasn't planning on even posting here anymore and just voting , but y'all need to stop and understand who it is you want to bring here and then understand what those folks want.

Edited to add, that it's apparent any great exchange listings aren't coming to save the day. We will NEVER have the liquidity Steem and Hive have as we are like a ghost at the exchanges most investors prefer to use. Memberships might be a way to circumvent this. The burden is on the chain to remedy this, exchanges are off the shelf.