This is our label! Cannabis Records. Go check out The Retrograde and The Velvicks on DeMu. If you like it, come back and get the vinyls from us!

Glad you're loving it! So with the live vids, there isn't a lot we can do with that anymore since theyre no longer on our label (thus the new tracks arent on demu). Its bittersweet but The Retrograde are onto bigger and better things and we wish them all the best! Still huge fans and supporters. We are just proud to be able to say we found them and were their first stepping stone to rock stardom!

Wait, do we not have the full album out on demu?!

Bandcamp is generally pretty good and most our artists use it in addition to DeMu.

TBC talking abt the img for our page. The Trusted one looks 🔥🔥 unless you want me to make any modifications to it.

Shoot us a list of any art assets you need and relevant details (rough dimensions or usage or whatever helps). Will get em to ya

Hey, lets get a new background photo up. Let us know what dimensions or aspect ratio you need and we'll make something sick for it

HARAMBE'S LAST BITCOIN

No middlemen, no greedy labels

No tricks, no secrets.

Value sent directly from a listener to the ones putting in work. v4v.

Truth and effort on display.

Is that the music industry you know or the music industy you want?

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YES.

nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m there is a ripe opportunity for major disruption in the music industry using bitcoin, nostr and rss. The music industry is dying because artists need bitcoin. Help us help them.

We have put in the proof of work to get things moving but we need help on wallet compatibility. If even a single major player like strike or cashapp simply implements certain existing lightning rails we are running on, we could go a seriously long way in making music great again and help indie artists get paid what they deserve.

Bitcoin can also fix culture along the way but we need everyone's help.

Cheap suits is a new favorite of mine recently

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#new2demu Thursday? 🔊🆙️

https://video.nostr.build/220b39d7d71098f85c090d77dbca39b68eb23fdd56aab607f4cfcb03bfc34267.mp4

Get ready, Yellowhammer's falling

https://video.nostr.build/cdef887aee1b1fbd6e4861e83ea873e7a4c19063081ad09e2a6b96b8f123b86c.mp4

RIP Ozzy 🤘🏽

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Proof of work is worth it though

Hey for those of you who met us at Vegas, I finally got my biz partner onto nostr! Well to be honest, the credit really goes out to ya'll. He was incredibly impressed by the people he met (mostly nostriches) and says he finally found his people!

Please give nostr:npub19yfawxpsyqakdj2jc768uvheut94vzm2tysuhl9dkymf8y382xjqkahztj a follow!

This is something we're working on actually. Was talking about it to ppl at the conf!

Gimme the Ferrari!

First I've heard of it 🤷🏻‍♂️

We'll be there!

This is a very good thread for nostriches interested in v4v music and understanding the underlying plumbing.

Don't trust, verify.

Not all v4v apps are the same. Some more sovereign/FOSS than others. Its up to you to pick your flavor and everyone is welcome to pick what they like. But its important to understand what you're picking and the tradeoffs therein.

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Ive seen bigger notes 😉🫠

Yep - what they say there is true. They just dont mention that they're not full participants in the open protocol like everyone else.

Tracks on an rss feed ultimately get pushed to the podcast index. This index represents all the valueverse content (and then some). Apps will pull from this index, referencing the PC2.0 compliaent rss feeds that are compatible with your particular app, and deliver that content to you as a user.

Wavlake excludes everything but the feeds published through them whereas all other v4v apps dont discriminate as long as the feed is technically compatible.

There's lots of options! I use rssblue which does charge $5 a month but they make it easy to build the rss feed. There are other providers out there - I'll let the podcast ppl give suggestions on alternatives nostr:npub19ha7tju4teqp3dmwv4p28wrcy9zd6h6hxkg5mwvjrlfycweazpkse2q0fa nostr:npub177fz5zkm87jdmf0we2nz7mm7uc2e7l64uzqrv6rvdrsg8qkrg7yqx0aaq7 nostr:npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 nostr:npub1yvscx9vrmpcmwcmydrm8lauqdpngum4ne8xmkgc2d4rcaxrx7tkswdwzdu

If you host your own website you can just upload the file yourself, grab an rss template, and point the tag towards where it was uploaded. That's the free DIY solution.

An rss feed is basically a huge text file. Within that text file it has tags that references things like where the audio file or album art is saved. For it to be PC2.0 compliant, it would need tags referencing the splits (like an lnaddress or node address)

Spotify pays 0.003 per stream. Other legacy music platforms (apple music, pandora, etc) have their own payout structures. None of them pay very much. You're basically renting your content to them for fractions of pennies while they get filthy rich off of your PoW.

Valueverse refers to tracks uploaded through an rss feed, more specifically the ones set up on an rss feed which allows boosting/zapping (aka podcasting 2.0).

Generally, the valueverse embodies much of the FOSS ethics that we hold important in nostr and bitcoin.

nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 The wavelake walls dont keep your music in, it keeps other music out. Wavlake still publishes to an rss feed which is accessible publicly and the tracks can be downloaded.

The entire reason rss distribution makes sense is it allows for the freedom of wide distribution. Walled gardens goes against the ethos.

Its their platform so they can do what they want. But that should be transparent and users and artists should know what's happening.

It shows up everywhere in the valueverse except wavlake.

Agreed, its better than Spotify but its also not as good as using self-hosted solutions.

For example, RSSBlue.com (hosting) takes a 2% split.

Apples to oranges. Spotify makes money by using your content (as an artist) to sell subscriptions and they kick the artist a $0.003 "commission" on the artists own IP.

The wavlake model takes a 10% split which is more akin to what happens with the middlemen in the existing industry taking a cut of profits. Not as egregious as other middlemen though. It all varies but traditionally management will take 15%, distro takes 20%, and the label takes 25% leaving the artist with only 40% before any expenses...

Salty with the tunes. Give it a listen, you won't be disappointed!

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You're 6.5 days ahead of my normal packing schedule

Can we get in on this?!

Mooky will be playing the Satellite Spotlight in two days along with The Trusted, Red Arrow Highway, and CityBeach!

This is a seriously stacked lineup!

Official watch page:

https://www.thesplitkit.com/spotlight25

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#v4v #music #newmusic #mooky #demu

Big shoutout and thank you to nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2 for fixing an issue we identified when using fountain wallet in an rss feed!

Keysend payments to non-indexed shows were unable to be tagged and recognized within fountain wallet so these payments weren't being received despite everything looking normal on the sender side. Its possible creators were missing payments without knowing it! But all good now, he took care of it FAST!

Highly highly recommend fountain.fm for your podcast and music needs!

I just ran the numbers on The Retrograde comparing their spotify earnings against v4v. Strap in its a 🤯🤯🤯

The Retrograde earned $0.003 per stream on spotify and $0.40 per stream on v4v. That's a 130x increase in value per stream. Holy shit. 🫨🫨🫨

Put into a different context, it takes 130 fans in traditional music to equal just ONE v4v fan. That's fuckin nuts.

Let me say that again:

130 trad music fans = 1 v4v fan

Imagine what happens when major artists realize the earnings potential and we scale all this up. Cannabis Records is on the mission.

Thank you to all you mega chad laser eyed v4v fans who's supported us through your zaps, boosts, and boostagrams! We are on the verge of something earth shatteringly disruptive here in the musoc biz. Let's fuckin gooooo!