GM, just some reflections.
I've spent the last year consuming & providing services using the value for value model.
As a consumer:
- I initially found it difficult to set my price on the services I consumed. I often made 2 payments - 1 initial & then a 2nd top up later when I thought about the value I received. Stop being a tight arse Brisket 😆
- I found it difficult to not put a message indicating that I was the sender, particularly as I became more generous. I wanted to try to give unconditionally though, so I fought this urge.
- I worried that others were not contributing & that the provider would cease providing his services.
As a provider:
- I cooked beef & made tallow soap without any indicative price, I just provided a lightning address & asked to be paid what it was worth
- I was initially disappointed with the payments. I questioned the model & my action. It was the highest premium I'd paid for sats & the most I'd worked for them. I had many doubts over the value I was providing & the practicality of the model.
- I persevered mainly because I enjoyed providing the service & I was quickly rewarded by an increase in the purchasing power of the sats collected (NGU to the rescue).
- I felt guilty for not setting a price & for pushing that difficult burden onto my brother's & sisters. I knew the burden because I'd felt it as a consumer.
- I was constantly motivated to enhance the service to see if it would shift behaviours. I was constrained by costs and motivated to provide more value. I innovated. I used my freezer space to buy high quality beef when prices were low. I served meat on sticks to make it easier for people to eat. I searched for ways to bring charcoal into the cook (the taste is unparalleled).
- I learned that I couldn't easily link any 1 event to it's payments. People would often pay in arrears months or in 1 case a year later.
- Giving & receiving unconditionally felt really fucking good
- It became a positive sum activity. Both the provider & consumer (i hope) felt that they were receiving more value than was provided.
- The sats I receive are still not enough to live on but it was never about that. I value those V4V sats more than the sats I bought with fiat & vow to never sell them for fiat. I'm filled with joy, hope, gratitude & wonder that people would part with them.
- I believe the elusive circular economy is unfolding & has been unfolding for a while. Non KYC sats are important to participate in it.
The last few steaks being cooked on a wood fired home made BBQ within the beer garden of a hotel/pub. It required a lot of Satoshi Synchronicity & the help of many to pull off. 🧡🙏
