Welcome, friends, James Corbett here, corporate report.com. And as you know, we are exploring different

social media alternative platforms in this series that I'm doing for Corbett Report, where we are looking

for different ways of connecting and sharing and being together online without being

herded into centralized controlled platforms that we know are being monitored, surveilled,

and censored in various ways. So I'm out there looking for alternatives, and one of them

that I've come across that

has been talked about quite glowingly by some people is yours.org. And today we are honored to be

talking to the CEO of yours.org, Ryan X. Charles. Ryan, thank you for joining us today.

Thank you very much for having me, James. All right, so let's start with the 30-second elevator pitch.

If you're introducing someone who's never heard of yours.org before to the platform, what is yours.org?

Sure, so yours.org is a social network where the users can earn money.

And what that means is, you know, one of the problems that we recognize with existing social platforms is that usually the company earns all the money, not the user.

We think it should be possible for the users to earn some of the money because they're creating all the value.

And secondly, we're interested in improving the quality of content.

By incentivizing people to create high quality content, by getting them paid, we

improve the quality. So we're interested in those two things, getting people paid and improving

the quality of content on the internet. So how and why did you come to start this project?

So I came to start it really originally because I became interested in Bitcoin a long time ago,

way back in 2011. And I was sort of an early enthusiast about Bitcoin. And way back then,

there was a project called Whitcoin, which was basically like Reddit but with Bitcoin. And so

they had a very similar idea way back then.

Fast forward a little while.

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