Fiat Subscriptions Suck
Fiat Subscriptions Suck
Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.
-- Satoshi
I was a big Napster nerd back in the day. until the drummer from Metallica got his leather panties in a bunch so I began to use p2p alternatives like Gnutella, Lime Wire, and BitTorrent. BitTorrent was, and still is glorious, but the intellectual property police disagree. Therefore I no longer download copyrighted material using BitTorrent.
I still use it to download books and software in the public domain. I still pay for Spotify to listen to music, but it kinda sucks for them. It's easier than using BitTorrent for me, but I would prefer to pay the artist directly while downloading their music. Aside from maybe Taylor Swift and Beyonce, most musicians don't make that much money off these subscriptions. For example, according to the Spotify website, a musician who has 10,000 monthly listens and owns 100% of royalties can expect to earn $23.80. A musician like [Ainsley Costello](Ainsley Costello) gets 654 listeners a month for a whopping royalty check of $1.56. That's barely enough money to buy a single thing at the Dollar Tree!
A thousand sats was about 70 cents. that means my one 1,000 sat zap was worth as much as 407 ears. In other words, each listen earns $0.002. The people paying money to support musicians instead of downloading the music for free on BitTorrent allow the artist to earn 1/5 of a penny. Therefore most musicians would be better off using podcasts like Fountain
I bet Lars would make more money too.
My Blog's Business Plan
I don't know what a successful Medium writer makes, but I guess it's similar to the way Spotify pays musicians. I hear Substack can be lucrative, but I don't want to earn fiat. I want to write about bitcoin and get paid...I don't know..." without going through a financial institution," as Satoshi described in the white paper.
This blog is written under the Creative Commons Licence, using the Value 4 Value model. I publish all my articles on GitHub. It's a free and open source blog. You are free to use it however you want. All I ask is for attribution. I also publish these blogs on nostr. Therefore, they can be read here
and here
I write about a blog a week. I will send out one of these blogs every Monday with a short synopsis and a paywall.
What if I'm a cheapskate and don't want to pay 500 sats?
You can still read the article on highligher.com, habla.news, or GitHub. I also publish it on Ghost over TOR.
You can zap me at the end or zap me next time. I don't want anyone who can't afford less than two bucks a month to miss out on any of my articles. Just do me a big favor. Share it on legacy social media to help me grow my audience. You might have noticed I suck at graphic design so if you can help me make a better banner--That would be awesome too!
What if I want to send more?
Of course, you can! Each article has a a link that lets you zap me any amount. 10% goes to OpenSats.
If you find my work valuable please consider sending me your time, talent, or treasure in return.
What If I Have No Sats To Send?
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