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Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by bin_bash on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:56AM (#30191828)
I've never been that interested in Bitcoin (save for buying drugs a couple of times) but seeing products named things like "Value4Value" make me actively want to run away from anything that even smells of blockchain.
Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by janandonly on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:05AM (#30191901)
I suspect that more and more products will rely on the bitcoin network without using the word "bitcoin" in their marketing.

Would you be interested in the Fountain.fm [1] podcast app? Are you still interested if someone told you it runs on a 2nd layer on top of bitcoin?

[1] https://www.fountain.fm/

Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by bin_bash on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:13AM (#30191965)
I use a credit card with patreon or memberful when I want to support creators. What would bitcoin offer me exactly? It seems it would pay creators that I don't actively want to support rather than just the ones I do.
Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by janandonly on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:27AM (#30192094)
I don't think I understand you here, because your argument is in favor of what I just said above?

Why would you pay a credit card fee and a Patreon fee if all you want to do is directly sponsor a Podcaster?

You see, lightning transactions are more or less free (as in, sub $ cent transactions) [1].

And using the Fountain.FM or Breez podcasting app's allowes not just you to stream money to the podcaster herself, but also a % of that "donation" to be split or even wholly donated to yet another person. [2]

[1] Scroll down to Median Fee: https://1ml.com/statistics

[2] For example, when you listen to this episode it will not stream money to the podcaster, but to the Human Rights Foundation: https://player.fm/series/closing-the-loop-2955490/ep-14-rodo...

Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by bin_bash on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:17AM (#30193486)
if I cared about transaction fees (I don't frankly—I make most of that money back in points anyways), I'd just give them money with my debit card
Re:Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app by smoldesu on Thursday February 03, 2022 @11:03AM (#30194108)
> Are you still interested if someone told you it runs on a 2nd layer on top of bitcoin?

No, I think that actually dilutes the value of a "decentralized" network.