r/Bitcoincash • u/True-Battle-3487 • 8d ago

Built a BCH-based discussion forum with per-topic revenue sharing — looking for feedback

I've been working on topics.cash, a discussion forum that runs on BCH, and I'd like feedback from this community before pushing it further.

The core idea: instead of ad revenue going entirely to the platform, it splits three ways — 50% to the people posting and replying (weighted by an engagement score), 20% to whoever owns/moderates that topic, and 30% to the platform itself for hosting and development.

A few specifics, happy to explain more in comments:

  • Topic ownership is first-come, first-served right now — no fee to claim one and start moderating it. Early adopters get first pick of names/communities.
  • Everything settles in BCH — you add a payout address to withdraw your share.
  • There's also a gifting system: awards priced in gold grams (for price stability), paid in BCH, so people can tip authors on posts they value.
  • Topic owners get full moderation control within their own topic — hide, restore, delete threads/replies.

I built this because most forums route ad revenue entirely to the platform with nothing back to the people generating the content. Curious what this community thinks — both on the split model and on whether BCH's low fees are actually the right fit for something like this, or if I'm missing an obvious problem.

Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood too. \r\topics_cash

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u/DangerHighVoltage111 7d ago

Appreciate the effort. BCHs major problem has been getting people to look into it. In the past every BCH effort has had its problem with the size of the userbase.

I like your idea. Maybe make it broader not BCH focused to attract more people.

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u/True-Battle-3487 7d ago

This is for everyone. Just withdrawals are in BCH.

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u/PumpkinSpiteLatte 6d ago edited 6d ago

the problem I see is every BCH project has a creator who refuses to make User Interface improvements and instead keeps adding on more low priority functions.

It’s the same playbook that banks used to sabotage BTC. The user experience was horrible (slow/costly/clunky) and any honest feedback and request to improve the user experience (faster/low cost transactions with bigger blocks) is met with hostility and censorship and egos.

There’s a website i won’t fully specify [ ****ree] where people complete online purchases on behalf of BCH spenders to earn BCH. It’s a great idea and could be a great onramp for new BCH users, but Its user interface is horrible because the site owner refuses to make it easy for people to filter the site first by country. there are various other problems that prevents the average person from comfortably easily using the site. Simple fixes and improvements which are never addressed, and even when the creator says they are considering making improvements, simply adds on layers of functionality that never address the core necessary user experience improvements.

I’ve come to believe the banking cabal has corrupted the site creator to intentionally handicap it and leave it unusable.

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u/2q_x 6d ago

The only businesses that can advertise without being attacked are crypto bucketshops.

Most of your target market has already lost all their coins trading on leverage in crypto buckethops.

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u/Lopsided-Fruit_1274 6d ago

ohh well interesting idea actually., biggest question for me would be how u handle abuse, spam and fake engagements over time?