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Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago 💬 16

The reason why I’m hesitant to add zapping to my profile is that I seek sponsorship for my articles & interviews so that the content can remain free and I don’t need to ask the audience for money.

I appreciate donations, but I’m feeling morally challenged by the idea of receiving money from my podcast listeners when I have 4 minutes of ads in every episode.

You also help the Bitcoin ecosystem at large if you check out the sponsors – because I pick them myself and they provide unique products/services with the Bitcoin ethos in mind.

So you also help a lot if you:

💚 download & use Wasabi wallet

😎 buy a Cryptosteel Capsule (10% off using code BTCTKVR) to store your Nostr private key, passphrase, or BIP39 seed

📱tell your favorite content creator on Patreon/OnlyFans to switch to Bumbee and get paid in bitcoin

🛒 do your shopping on ShopInBit instead of Amazon (5 euro discount with code BTCTKVR, 3% discount if you pay in BTC)

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The Yuri 2y ago

You can come up with some content niche to get zapped for.

The Yuri 2y ago

Notes on Nostr can cover some exclusive stuff that isn’t covered on your podcast. If valuable, people will zap

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago

Yeah, I gotta think about something so there’s little overlap. Maybe stories about my bitcoin journey 😅

7a3337e4... 2y ago

If it helps, I follow you but have never listened to one of your podcasts.

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago

Well, if you ever find the time there are nearly 150 episodes that I’ve recorded in the last 4 years. It’s more of an intermediate show for people who already know the basics and want to learn more about stuff that’s being built to drive up Bitcoin adoption.

I don’t give investment advice, but the guests usually work on projects/companies that can use some funding and may become profitable in a few years 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tyler Burns 2y ago 💬 3

Zapping is entirely voluntary though. If someone zaps you and also listens to your podcast, it means they're OK with zapping you while also sitting through ads.

Carlito 2y ago

Agreed. I doubt any listeners will be upset about it, I'm an occasional listener and I'm certainly not.

I'd consider zaps on here as entirely separate from the pod funding, mostly people are just zapping for fun and because it's exciting to be a part of this new thing, anyway.

Hendrix 2y ago

Ive not listened to your pod, but when I'm listening to others on Fountain and I'm streaming sats I skip the ads. I boost extra for pods with no ads.

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago

Check it out sometime, you’ll certainly find a guest/topic that you like.

As for tipping, your habit is admirable but based on my experience in the last 4 years it’s very much the exception to the rule. Bitcoiners like to HODL, it’s not easy to convince them to use their coins 😅

Hendrix 2y ago

I will take a look.

I would agree with you if we were speaking 18 months ago but things are changing quickly, look how quick Zaps have take off and the lightning ecosystem is growing quickly. Not saying you would today replace ad revenue with Sats, Odell is clear that CD is a long way off RHR. But nothing wrong with letting those that want to streem you sats do so.

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago

If you do take a look, please send feedback 🫡

Hendrix 2y ago

I found you on Fountain and people have boosted you. You just need to connect your node.

Hendrix 2y ago

Listened to S13 E4 today, good pod, like the way you let the guests speak rather than 100's of Qs. Subscribed.

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago

Thank you sir!

wolf 2y ago

Wasabi is the wrong way, as is ads.

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 2y ago

Have you seen what a Wasabi 2.0 CoinJoin looks like?

They do the most research and development in Bitcoin privacy, it’s all open source for anyone else to fork and use. Trezor is adding a Wasabi integration, BTCPay is working on it too, some centralized exchanges that hate surveilling their users will most likely follow.

It’s good tech which does huge CoinJoins without occupying too much block space. In the future, we can have entire Bitcoin blocks that contain 1-2 large CoinJoins.

Here’s an example of what Wasabi 2.0 already does on a regular basis: https://mempool.space/tx/084e9f1cff337425c3e66ddb85705f374afc922e9263e5af9099f24316c1f9c0

JCT 2y ago

Dude just do it, nothing to feel bad about so long as you are adding value.