Unsplash to build a new economy around photography raises $7.25 million will use Simple Token (OST)

Big news coming out of Beautiful Free Images | Unsplash, a website I’ve used many times over the years that I really love to look for photos that I’m able to use for projects for free (often just sharing the credit link back) — incredible site, laser focus, great images, vast community and lots of traffic.

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash

https://medium.com/unsplash/we-just-raised-7-25-million-for-unsplash-to-build-a-new-economy-around-photography-cedc8a999239

I’d certainly love for our steem community to look at building something as equally good as unsplash but using the steem blockchain, similar and polished for high end photography — I know a few have tried but they have not really taken off.

My money is on steepshot making it, I can’t wait to get an android phone for that, just for the photo side alone for when on the road and I can’t really spend too much time writing but more like incidental microblogs along the way, that’s what I’m more interested in, nano sized blogging merging together.

The funds being invested today will be going toward defining a new economic model around photography. It won’t be a model where photos are going to be paid for with cryptocurrency. It will be a model that works equally well for both photographers and creators. We’ll also be working on some new products and tools that will make creation easier, faster, and fun

This is kinda huge, I don’t know that much about simple token (OST) so I don’t know how good it is or the team behind it so if any of you do please comment away below in the post, I’m certainly interested in picking some up because it’s quite cheap at the moment.

If the track record of the unsplash team is anything to go by this partnership and transition into crypto seems like the perfect match made in heaven and with the design chops and hard working team I think it’s a no brainer, as long as the integration is smooth I can certainly see an economy around photos and video makers in the years to come and unsplash as one of the players in that space.

In Unsplash’s first year, 365 photos are downloaded 10 million times.

Btw, you can learn How to buy Simple Token (OST) - a step by step guide by using this guide link, I personally think this is a worthwhile buy in especially once unsplash has this integrated. ..

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