There's a big debate forming on the nostr.

There are a lot of bitcoiners here who love to post and consume bitcoin content. In my opinion the bitcoin culture on nostr is its greatest strength. 🧡

There are also a lot of people here who are not as interested in bitcoin and want to expand the conversation so that nostr is more welcoming.

Personally, I'm not interested in being told what is appropriate to talk about or what is bad for nostr. I came here expressly to say what I want, when I want. 💜

If you want to see something else, feel free to post that. If you don't like what I am posting, no one is forcing you to read it. 🫂

Other people will have different opinions, but I'm not interested in attracting non bitcoiners to nostr. I'm interested in seeing the synergy between bitcoin and nostr become so powerful that neither can be ignored or avoided.

In my opinion that's where we are inevitably headed.

💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡

It’s funny to me when people say the left in the U.S. is captured by media and mainstream media. Perhaps, but what about the right?

Always 🦗

I’m old enough to remember the rise of Fox News post 9/11 and the fear and war mongering from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Fox News 100% molded the Republican Party into its own image, completely capture by Fox News media.

That is the great capture right before our eyes.

Quality, authentic, original human artistic expression is always in demand. It has always been in demand, and it will continue to be in demand even beyond the age of AI. The internet today calls it “content.” It is how we seek to encapsulate and communicate ideas more richly, and it comes in various forms including written, audio, and visual.

Anyone who creates content in any form knows that it is time consuming and costly to create and produce good content, especially to do so consistently. However, because of digital distribution methods, once released that content that was so costly to create is suddenly infinitely RE-producible with perfect fidelity for very little cost. The conundrum for artists/creators is that even though the demand for their work exists, and even though that work is costly to create, each final product they produce is infinite in supply as soon as they release it in digital form. Infinity has no value.

Starting with the presumption that demand exists for art, and that it is reasonable for an artist to want to afford things like food, housing, and clothes, how do you make the work of creating content economically sustainable for those creating it? We find value in scarcity, and the scarce resources in the equation of content creation are ultimately the time, talent, and skill of the person doing the creating.

People often want what a particular artist can produce. Perhaps it’s the artist’s skill, style, and precision; or perhaps it’s the artist’s particular interpretation and personality they find valuable. The skill, time, and talent/personality employed to create artistic expressions are valuable, and their supply cannot be easily reproduced/replicated even though the individual manifestations of them (the works of art) can be. This is, ultimately, what creators must figure out how to monetize if they are to make their work economically sustainable.

So how much is an artist’s skill worth? How much is their time or their talent worth? How do you put a price tag on personality? Probably nobody, especially the artist, can really answer that objectively. However, with #value4value the consumers of an artist’s content can subjectively and individually decide for themselves how much it is worth to them.

Nostr and Bitcoin give creators of every type of content the opportunity to directly own and control the distribution and monetization of their time, skill, and talent, more so than any other service or platform on the Internet. The #value4value approach to monetizing that content allows consumers to immediately have access to a creator’s work, and to individually place a subjective value on what it provides to them. The approach allows artists to focus on the work of creating art and building a reputation and relationship with their audience instead of worrying about how to control access to their work. And by using Nostr and Bitcoin, this approach allows artists to be free of the arbitrary rules and manipulation they face on other corporate ad-driven platforms.

If you are a digital content creator, I think #value4value is worth giving a chance. The alternatives are increasingly less promising.

“I wish there was enough people to milk here.”

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Don't suppose anyone here wants to sell me their used copy of The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean and/or The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth.

Thought I'd ask here, before buying elsewhere.

#bookstr

#asknostr

#bitcoin