In recent posts from @ned [(see here)](https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/increasing-curation-demand-for-steem-power-and-community-interaction) and @calaber24p [(see here)](https://steemit.com/steemit/@calaber24p/revamping-curation-is-the-way-to-increase-steem-power-demand) further adaptations of the voting and curation process have been proposed in order to increase the demand for Steem Power.  
I understand the rational of these proposals and it may well be that these would indeed further incentivize powering up.  

*However*, turning the curation set screws alone will probably not be enough to **foster significant growth of our platform.** And it is growth that determines the value of our SP at the end of the day. Consequently, as we are all stakeholders of Steemit, fostering growth should be top priority for all of us. 

*What may help growing Steemit?*

It is important yet not enough to focus on how to curate good content within Steemit. **What we should (also) think about is how to use Steemit to curate the entire Internet!**  

I therefore propose to establish a specific section in which link-posting is encouraged. If Steemit proves to be a place **that rewards the surfacing of great content from the web** this would have the potential to attract a lot more people **beyond the blogosphere**. And we need to have more people here! Millions in fact to catch up with our market cap!

So in this regard here my first link-post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaEQEmt5ls  


## *Now, how to deal with the earnings from such link-posts?* ##

### Here is my proposal: ###
I propose to establish a special section for link-posts where a different payout scheme is automatically applied. Let´s say 10%  go to the poster to reward his curation efforts. The remaining 90% are payed into a pool account from which the original content creator can claim his reward after signing-up. Ideally, a post in that section triggers a notification bot that reaches out to the original content provider, e.g. via youtube, facebook etc.

As such a process is obviously not in place yet, please note that I will donate 100% of the earnings of this post in equal parts to the @curie and @robinhoodwhale initiatives. 

### Please let me know in the comments what you think about this proposal. Your feedback is much appreciated. Thank you! ###

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**PS**  Regarding the video, I have my doubts that this kind of DNA analysis is actually possible due to an insufficient number of publicly available human genomes. Still, I like the message of the video very much :-)