Zaps are great, but I don't want your hard-earned money.

I intend to create a strong community and empower plebs.

I desire to be surrounded by people who share my values and goals.

I strive to enact positive change in the world and bend reality into a desirable state.

And I am willing to invest in that.

REPOST and COMMENT to be zapped 421 sats. Reach is valuable and #nostr is where the plebs are. I will zap until my wallet is empty.

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It sounds to me like their gripe is not with V4V or even Bitcoiners, but rather that they have not been immediately successful in whatever they’re doing and are choosing to project their own failure onto bitcoiners. They identified nothing that is actually a scam, so from the start I have to assume that their position is questionable and likely self-serving.

What I can agree with is that V4V is probably harder if you’re only trying to do it with bitcoin, simply because there are fewer people using bitcoin for payments than there are using regular fiat payments. If you are intent on ONLY accepting bitcoin, that automatically reduces your available market to ONLY people that have Bitcoin and who are willing to spend it. Pretty small group, so you’ll have to explicitly and consistently publish things they’re willing to part with sats over.

It is better to view V4V as one of the available approaches to content monetization. Bitcoin makes it easier and is borderless, so there are advantages to finding ways to appeal to a bitcoiner-based market. However, if someone wants to pay you in fiat and you are able to accept it, then you only hurt yourself by refusing to do so.

And using V4V doesn’t necessarily preclude you from also using other models like subscriptions, paywalls, etc, if you want to do so. It doesn’t need to be all or nothing. Although there are several examples of people here who say they have found V4V on nostr, even with its small user base, to already be more profitable than other platforms.

ill just say it..

the funding difficulties of nostr clients that we all use would end immediately if the client we used received 1 sat from every zap transaction. we wouldn’t even notice it, and it would foster healthy innovation, competition, and some amazing nostr clients would come out of it.

I’d use this for a family holiday call over zoom

“iCloud+ subscribers can create invitations, and anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.”

Interesting to see if this will take off. I suspect it won’t. Only subscribers can create events. 🤔 nostr:note1dnwkycadwwrpenlf0yaxsgq2rqnxw8ysyxq77p0t6cn5xa2f6vzq4rr7qn

Debasement is the oldest trick of kings. Reject their diluted promises.

It works