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https://www.coinspeaker.com/ripple-platform-xrp/

Ripple has started a very Steem-adjacent blogging platform that's going to reward users with XRP for creating content.   

# Where does the money come from?
The difference here is rewards are collected in the form of a $5 monthly subscription fee. 

The thing I find the most interesting about this are the listed competitors:
* Brave/BAT
* 'Lightning-powered' Yalls
* ERC-20 token Cent

Once again, we see that Steem only gets reported on when something bad happens.  It is mind blowing to me that all these Steem-like services are coming out, but they are worse than Steem and Steem is never mentioned. 

We are being underestimated.  As time goes on we will make so much noise that ignoring us will not be an option.  

# Steem on!