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Hey guys! Today I was thinking of how the Steem blockchain could evolve as a whole and move away from being purely a social network. We have so many applications built on top of Steemit already like Dlive, Dtube and Dsound just to name a few. However, what if we have a Dbay or something like that for digital items! 

# The philosophy
Today, we have a lot of places to buy and download digital items, I was thinking Steemit could establish a central platform where you can buy anything digital! From original music, to original games or original movies, perhaps even an anti-virus or wallpaper, anything that can you can upload (with permission)! 

# How would it work? 
## 1) Item Listing
- First user uploads a file onto the Steem blockchain which is scammed for viruses
- The file might cost a few Steem per GB to upload
- Steem generates a link to the file (similar to images)
- This file is now on the Steemit blockchain for you and others to access
- You can sell this file via DBay
- If first tag on post is dbay and contains a file, the want to sell post will appear on dbay.com
- The remaining 4 tags can be the description of the item, e.g art, game, music and so on
- The seller sets a price (minimum 0.1Steem or 0.1SBD) and upon a sale, the blockchain burns 1% of the sale to reduce inflation

## 2) Item Searching and Buying
- As mentioned before, selling tags will be different from traditional tags to streamline the shopping process
- Users can go on dbay.com to shop
- If a user wants to buy an item, simply click buy. If the user has enough funds, 98% of the funds are transferred to the user and 1% burnt and the user will unlock the ability to download the file via their account. The remaining 1% should go to the devs who run the site!

## 3) Plagiarism or copyright
- This may be a problem as it's very easy to simply download a file and resell it for cheaper
- To counter this, I propose that the money from selling files should count towards the author payouts, thus affected by downvotes. 
- This way if something is plagiarized, the plagiarizer will earn no money from the software if caught out early and even lose money from the uploading fee

## 4) Benefits for Steem and Steemit
-  Burns steem which decreases supply thus increases the power each unit of Steem has
- Brings another application to the Steem ecosystem
- Promotes creativity and software development/art/music/ anything uploadable and downloadable! 

## 5) Grand vision 
- Imagine if your favorite artist had Steemit and you could download their music straight from Steemit! 
- Imagine your favorite online artist had Steemit and you could download their artwork straight from Steemit!
- Imagine Steemit being the central platform for downloading anything online!

## 6) Disclaimer
Obviously this isn't a perfect plan, in fact the very first time I've ever put this into words, so there might be obvious flaws I haven't considered so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to comment! I don't know if this is even possible but who knows what the future might hold!