Defeating the entire purpose of having a crypto-blockchain & decentralized platform, Audius doesn’t distribute or pay artists for streams with their platform’s Token. 2-3 years & as one of it’s earliest supporters & adopters, this is inexcusable. The initial idea of Audius was promising, now that the biggest shareholders of the token have the largest stakes of the currency, they prefer to keep it instead of doing what we all thought the platform was created to do. “Top 5 playlist, Top 5 underground blah blah blah” is not a TRUE way to pay artists for the use of their music. Being the first blockchain platform for music streaming I believe the platform has failed in its mission. Their will be another platform that comes about surely & when it does, it will solve this issue & only then will Audius CONSIDER paying EVERY artist for their streams. Just stupidity at it’s finest, & greed. Node operators that don’t even distribute music make more than the artists by a landslide. Correct me if I’m wrong? Tell me that you guys shouldn’t pay artists for the use of their music with your platform token, & the fact that years after launch this isn’t happening isn’t as ridiculous as one could imagine? I’ll wait-actually I won’t. Best of luck, I don’t encourage any artist to out their work here, you will not be compensated. Audius, you have to forgive me but this is the truth & I can assure you I supported the platform in a patient way as long as I could.