I feel as though if you want to get paid for your content, it’s basically up to the people to zap you and send you sats if they find your value in your work. Adoption will come, we are still early. Third parties are not needed to monetize only the people
Someone should speak at these Nostr World conferences about how they plan on monetizing this protocol. The more people that join the higher the costs for relay and image storage operators. It's an unfortunate truth that nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m is basically subsidizing everything including app development and the conferences. But most people fall off after a couple months. If you pump ads through the app that will just make it worse. Can't count on donations. What do you do? Sell user data? What are the financials looking like?
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Sure. Content creators can receive zaps. But how does the relay and the app developer get a cut?