In short, cryptoblogs are websites where you could start your own blog, while earning crypto for your posts or other activities. Main aspects or features of cryptoblogs are usually decentralization, open-sourceness, delegation system, community involvement and others. In another terms cryptoblogs can be described as a main alternative of centrally hosted blogs like Medium or even Wordpress/CMS-based personal blogs.
Web 3.0 is all about UGC or User-Generated Content. Such companies like Facebook, Google, YouTube and others are creating UGC platforms to track you and sell you something via the ads. This approach has a millions problems both with personal privacy, laws, censorship, and other topics. But this is not only single problem of theirs! They also don't pay you anything, not a single dime, for you to spend time there. While we all know that time is one of the most valuable assets for us all in the whole world.
Contrary to this approach, cryptoblogs are also UGC platforms, but they (usually) don't gather any more information than you put there yourself. A big breath of fresh air. And what's even better, they ain't only trusting you with your own decisions, they also pay you for your posts (as people vote for them) as well as they allow you to fine-tune your privacy settings or even create an anonymous account to express your opinions without revealing identity at all. Finally, cryptoblogs allow you to take part in the system as a delegate, endpoint/frontend hoster, full node, miner, or others; so you can benefit from cryptoblogs in many different ways.
I've tried to separate the list by blockchain that stands in the base of the project. One of the first and the most successful basis for cryptoblogs was Steemit. It was not the first cryptoblog ever, but just counting exact number of forks that worked on Steemit basis is actually a hard task.
If you know some cryptoblog that isn't listed here, feel free to create a pull request or write an issue so I add it.
This repo was last updated 26 january 2020.
- I was thinking on whereever I should include some dynamic information like platform ranking. But this type of info got outdated fast, so I decided not to add it.
- The only thing that isn't frequently changing is crypto that's working for inside blockchain transactions, so I decided to include that. However, bear in mind, that some of Cryptoblogs are also building their token ecosystem (they usually call their tokens "User Issued Assets" or UIA), and I am not including UIA's in this list.
- I also included crypto-videoblogs for several reasons. Some of them are: cryptovideoblogs are frequently based on cryptoblogs basis, as well as topic is very close.
- If somebody knows musical, books, films sharing crypto networks, please let me know (except for Torrents, obviously), and I will include them.
- I am not adding crypto-games in here, as this will be a pretty long list, especially with ETH and Steemit games that was there or that are still there.
- This list includes platforms that are still alive as-of date of this post. Platforms that are defunct or closed are listed in the end of this list for histrotical purposes as well.
- Also, I am not including "... power" (voting power, steem power, hive power etc.) into the "Main crypto" list, as they are not directly withdrawable, so, "less liquid assets".
There was are about two dozens of steemit-based platforms in general, and about one dozen of them is still working
| Name | Purpose | Main crypto |
|---|---|---|
| Steemit | General-purpose, global cryptoblog | STEEM & Steem Dollars (earlier: Steem Backed Dollars (SBD)) |
| Hive | Popular steemit fork which was created to improve decentralization of the community | Hive, Hive Dollars |
| Golos.id | General-purpose, originally russian-language cryptoblog | ГОЛОС (GOLOS), Золотой (GBG) |
| Whaleshares.io | A steemit like platform with some new approaches and enhancments (communities, etc.) | WLS |
| VIZ.world | This cryptoblog takes another approach and allows you to motenize content on another platforms, such as YouTube, Telegram and others. Also originally forked from Steemit | VIZ |
| Scorum.com | Sport-related cryptoblog with a cool redesigned interface as well as with support for picking the language of the articles themselves | Scorum Coins |
| Serey.io | Cambodgia-based cryptoblog, visually appealing more like a newspaper | Serey |
| Smoke.io | Another cryptoblog, this time about smoking culture | Smoke |
| Name | Purpose | Main crypto |
|---|---|---|
| Read.cash | Bitcoin cash-based cryptoblogging website | |
| Voice.com | "Original" cryptoblogging platform from EOS developers and community |
| Name | Purpose | Main crypto |
|---|---|---|
| Zappl | Short Messaging service with Steem monetization (similar to Twitter) | STEEM |
| Noise.cash | Bitcoincash donation-based collaborative twitter-alike platform | Bitcoin Cash |
Publish0x Minds Flote.app
Either video hostings, video streams, or both.
| Name | Purpose | Main crypto |
|---|---|---|
| DTube | Video sharing platform with Steem monetization (similar to Youtube) | STEEM |
| DLive | Live-Streaming service with Steem monetization (similar to Twitch) | STEEM |
| LBRY | Library (LBRY) is it's own blockchain and video ecosystem that is decentralized contrary to YT | LBRY |
| BitChute | ||
| PeerTube |
DSound - Soundsharing with Steem monetization (similar to Soundcloud).
- Utopian (now defunct) was a joint venture in trying to help promote open-source software articles on Steemit.
- Mapala was a steemit-based traveling community, later tried to create it's own blockchain and tokens
- Steepshot was a Instagram-clone for steemit blockchain
- ChainBB is a forum that uses the Steem currency; Golos.id also has it's own forum
- dMania - Sharing-Platform for Memes and Jokes (similar to 9GAG). If you need related tools, mobile apps, blockchain explorers, forums, editors, cold wallets, and other good stuff - check out other awesome lists, for example, this one.
Please take a note that this list does not include CPA/Ads networks, even if they are crypto-based. The only included sites are those where you can place "your piece" of content and earn something from this action.
All platforms BEFORE this title are in active state to the date of this post. However, the platforms below are "on pause", "defunct" or "closed".
| Name | Purpose | Main crypto |
|---|---|---|
| golos.io | Was a Russian fork/mix-up between old Steemit-based and new EOS codebase | Golos, Golos Backed Gold (GBG) |
| VOX.community | Another Russian-language Steemit community fork | N/A |
| Commun.com | Yet another RU-community, but this one is EOS-based, closed in 2020 | N/A |
| Weku.io | WEKU was a Chinese-based cryptoblog based on Steemit, closed in the beginning of 2021 | N/A |
| VIT | Vice Industry Token was a steemit-based video porn hosting website | VIT |
| WeYouMe | Alpha testing of another fork | N/A |
| Bearshares.com | A one-man created platform, another steemit fork | Bears |
Please feel free to add your favourite or any other cryptoblogging, video, audio, books, films, arts related crypto platoform via either "Issues" or "Pull Request".
Add a script that allows users to fetch current monthly visitors to these cryptoblogs and see the approximate audience of them.