You could do a paywall with Bitcoin and Nostr. A journalist would have their own relay in which they publish their content to. Nostriches would pay for access to this private relay, allowing them to gain read access to the content.
Discussion
until the content gets inevitably rebroadcasted to public relays
Is there no way to prevent your notes from being rebroadcast?
I think the tooling for pay to read more is on its way, I think you might encrypt everything beyond the read more part… this way unlike sub-stack… you could still get the redundancy, censorship-resistance, and distribution reach of nostr, because Matt’s wrong in thinking any centrally controlled entirety is censor-proof.
One might still want to run up a relay for a locals like community for their subscribers and bundle that, these encrypted long form pay to reads can exists there but also could be relayed for reach, specially if a nation state bans the relay.
also think subscription model is important to apply to this pay to read more. In some cases, I want matt to write about what he personally thinks is important, not be driven by the individual articles that get unlocked the most.
Sounds interesting 💡
For micro payments I would prefer to pay per article though. Maybe show title and ingress for free?
I like how republik.ch does it:
Articles can be shared with anyone publicly, but you pay an abo for feed, grouping, categorizing and discussing.
How established is "zapping" and the "value for value" concept on Nostr?
If every reader develops the habit to donate for the content he just read, there is no need for a paywall here.
Any thoughts on this?