Although Nostr was built by bitcoiners and right now the main audience is bitcoiners, I believe that when people realize how awesome it is, they will come flooding in. Once they realize they can get zaps for providing quality content, they will learn bitcoin and the orange pills will flow like a river!
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I wish you were right. But imo there is no way to get enough sats for ‚quality content‘ on that basis.
Imaging being a youtuber currently cashing in 10.000 - 80.000 $ each month from YT ads…
Do you really think a protocol/app with the possibility to earn sats for art could be interesting for those content creators?
Never gonna happen imo. It‘s a wishful dream.
Youtube isn’t interesting to me anymore. People are paid by advertisers who don’t care about quality content. They only care about number of views. That has resulted in every paid YouTuber using every trick in the book to get more views. Misleading sensational thumbnails and titles are basically click bait for videos where they ramble for 10 minutes to convey a point that could be expressed in 10 seconds. I used to get paid for my YouTube videos and I was so excited to make a tiny bit of money. Look at what it’s grown into. I think Nostr is different. It’s better because content providers are paid directly and instantly by the content consumers. The potential is hire in my opinion.
I think: The consumers don‘t want to pay for content at all.
That is the reason why the ads-model is in use by everyone in first place.
Lets see, I hope that you are right but realistically I can‘t see that happening with the mindset of the mainstream.
Value4value is something only a very few percentage of humans would not abuse.
I am hopeful about this as well. The efficiency of lightning allows very small payment amounts. The users will be more neutral to paying a fraction of a cent compared to dollar. Together with high volume I believe this can definitely work.
Once normies start zapping (perhaps with a few hundred sats given by others) it is very addictive. This changes the whole perspective. There might not be going back to old crappy financial system.