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Not an incubator yet, but yes, the goal is to have something like a bitcoin-only YC I guess. Not sure if YC is still good, but at least it used to be good?

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I think the switch will be gradual, yes. Podcasting 2.0 is leading the way. Granted, the first shows that are purely listener-funded via V4V will be niche purists like Citadel Dispatch and similar, but that's always how these things start.

Managed to write a short thread summary too. (Here's a mirror in case you hate twitter.)

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Not a good look. Especially considering that they removed old blogposts and other things that stated their "principles."

Focus is important.

Nitter mirrors: A, B

Great question.

Wikipedia is an interesting case study. It worked well in the past, but I would argue that it now suffers (and has for some years) what Warren Buffet called "the institutional imperative."

It used to be a very lean organization, and now is anything but. There are some interesting answers as to the why of this bloat. But many people agree that—again, for some years now—Wikipedia has cancer.

Personally, I would love to see a move away from "Siren Servers," towards something that rewards people monetarily, i.e. something along the lines of programmatic V4V splits. I believe it would solve some of these problems, but it probably will also introduce new problems. That's just how these things go.

In any case, I'm so bullish on V4V on Lightning in particular because of its directness and transparency, which should—at least in theory—reduce administrative and other bloat.

Alby has allowances per site; I'd love to see a global one. Hard to do in a way that won't be gamed/abused, though.

Yeah, don't buy it. (Or buy the physical copy.) It's not great, I just wanted to point out that this is a known problem and there is a lot of prior work in regards to the problem definition.

V4V is a behavioural solution. Lightning allows for a technical solution.

I think wedding and extending both is the way.

Thank you 🙏🧡 A Moscow Time worth of sats for you good sir.

Exactly. It doesn't make sense for an apple. But it makes sense for a picture of an apple.

Digital artifacts can be reproduced at zero marginal cost. Regular pricing models don't make sense. This book got the problem definition right, but not much else I'm afraid.

Yes, it was the right idea (or at least going in the right direction), but creating your own currency for it is unethical, of course.

The Gab/Dissenter guys created a fork a while back to replace BAT with sats, but I think it was discontinued. Used to be called Dissenter browser, I believe. Imho it was too early. I'd love to see another effort now, or soon.