Steem newbie here but I am thinking of investing.
Can I find somehow some statistics about how many people actually pay to read articles? Seems to me that everyone is getting money from this. In the end yes, maybe the people that are losing money on exchanges are the ones paying for the articles that they never read obv. But in theory if this is a viable project some users should be paying to read. I know I would never pay to read and many others would prefer to have ads on the side.
You are going to lose money
impossible since I don't invest in things that are not clear to me. No whitepaper can convince anyone that money flows through the air and everybody both curators,investors and content publishers get money.