| Platform | Year | Chain | Pay-to-Post | Reader Tips | Reward Pool | Notes |
| Steemit | 2016 | STEEM | No (free) | Upvote → pool | ✅ Weekly | Original; pioneered the model |
| Ecency | 2016 → 2020 | STEEM → HIVE | No (free) | Upvote → pool | ✅ Weekly | Founded as "Esteem" (Steem front-end); migrated to Hive in 2020 |
| Y'alls.org | 2017 | Lightning (testnet) | ✅ 1 sat | ❌ (demo) | ❌ | First pay-to-post concept; never fully functional |
| Read.cash | 2019 | Bitcoin Cash | No (free) | ✅ Direct tips | ✅ (Random Rewarder) | Closest Steemit clone on BCH |
| Hive.blog | 2020 | HIVE | No (free) | Upvote → pool | ✅ Weekly | Community fork of Steem (Mar 20, 2020); largest Steemit-like community |
| Blurt.blog | 2020 | BLURT | No (free) | Upvote → pool | ✅ Daily | Another Steem fork (Jul 4, 2020); smaller community |
| Nostr | 2020 → 2022 | BTC Lightning (sats) | No (free) | ✅ Zaps | ❌ (per-territory) | Protocol spec Nov 2020; zaps + mainstream adoption Dec 2022–2023 |
| Stacker.news | 2021 | BTC Lightning (sats) | ✅ 1 sat | ✅ Zaps | ✅ (territory-based) | First production-ready pay-to-post + tips on Bitcoin |
| Stasher.news | 2024+ | Monero | ✅ 0.01 XMR | ✅ Tips | ✅ Weekly | Fork of Stacker.news; privacy-focused |
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