Listen here, I found out the ultimate solution how to make Steemit go viral with just a few implementations from the Developers, that would cost really nothing, but could send Steem coin itself to the Moon and make Steemit.com go viral at the same time.
One problem Steem has is inflation, and I think inflation can be fixed 2 ways, either by shrinking it, or by bringing more value to Steem, by buying Steem. In this case we will focus on the latter.
We could bring a lot of value from other altcoins into Steem, with this idea, creating a stream of money into Steem from other currencies. It could work wonderfully.
It would also solve the problem for newbies who earn little SP & SD on their posts, this implementation would help newbies who struggle on Steemit. It would be awesome, now everybody will be able to earn money!
THE SOLUTION
The solution is the Shapeshift button! It is called the Shifty Button, and it can be integrated into Steemit easily.
This way people could tip people with Steem or Steem Dollar, by converting their altcoins into Steem / Steem Dollar, and after the altcoins are converted the Steem and SD will be credited to their target's account. The button could be integrated into Steemit, showing it at the bottom of every article, so that people could tip the author, but also in the comment section, so that commenters could be tipped as well.
This is a wonderful idea, it stabilizes the price of Steem, by creating a constant inflow of value from tipping into Steem, and it can also help reward newbies to earn some money.
Most people here barely have any SP to vote, so they can't properly reward Steemit users for quality content, but I bet they all have some Bitcoins or Altcoin, that they can tip with.
So this implementation would fix 2 big problems: INFLATION & NEWBIES NOT EARNING MONEY, I am a genius!
Now make sure you spread this article, so that it can get to the Developers, I am sure they are looking for good ideas like this one to make Steemit go viral. Imagine if in the future 1 million Steemit users will constantly tip 5-10$ / article or comment, that could bring hundreds of millions of $ of value to Steem, literally!
Also make sure you create an issue on Github so that it can really get implemented:
https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com/issues
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues