My guest today is Sam Means. Sam is a musician, podcaster, entrepreneur, co-founder of Hello Merch, founder of nostr:npub1eequz6v23szzyx9utphsh8kg6kll50wte6sfh4vah8gdjtplcz6qg7at9s and co-founder of nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg . Sam joins me to discuss how Wavlake is building a new online ecosystem for musicians & listeners to directly transact using Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. We dive into Sam's journey, Bitcoin for creatives, challenges in the music industry, building local communities and events around Bitcoin and Nostr, creating cool and user-friendly products, Bitcoin education and adoption and much more.

Listen wherever you get your pods by searching “The Progressive Bitcoiner” or via our website ⬇️

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Im happy to report that nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg charts is awesome!

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NOSTR WINS #nostr

#devs

We're excited to announce the release today of custom, embeddable Wavlake charts. This new extension of our portable player allows anyone to slice and dice Wavlake stats to create unique views into our music library.  https://zine.wavlake.com/build-your-own-wavlake-chart/

Alright, so as you know, I started using nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg recently, since I went ahead and posted all music I had composed up to this point in time there. I'm pretty satisfied with it thus far. This is where I intend to post my music other than YouTube (which is another platform I'll do it in, but not under YouTube music, since I don't know how that works.)

Rest assured, this is how I can be listened to for the music I post. If you use YouTube to do it, fantastic! If you use Wavlake, however, this makes you a BTC gigachad who knows how to support (if you so choose, that is). Either way, I'm loving it thus far, though, some part of it should become Free Software (speaking as an advocate for libre software, but that's just my recommendation).

Frens!! 🔊🔊🔊 My Remix of nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy's song Two Ships just hit number 7 on Wavlake's top 40 🔥🔥🔥Thanks for the listens 📻📻📻 and zaps⚡⚡⚡ and reposts 🔁🔁🔁

Wavlake link

https://wavlake.com/track/e638bf06-1d06-4115-b646-09cd2a64c3e4

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https://youtu.be/wxw9jk026qI

Listen and support the track on nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg https://wavlake.com/track/b6dff415-a775-4da3-9c75-81b1ca48ab8a

nostr:npub1ftuvtk9m837dwkm2ftzv5z7qnh68wj5ryk7c57g602y0hl0gzc9qfmk4fa just alerted me to the existence of this. 🤤