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Podcasting 2.0, The Lightning Network, and Value4Value usher in a new era of podcasting that's free of big tech control

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Yesterday at a dinner I was asked why I wasn’t more interested in Bitcoin. I didn’t have a real answer and my ignorance of my own opinion encouraged me to write it out.

I don’t know why the world is the way it is: why people are unhappy and why the future looks increasingly fraught. My conclusions lead me to consider that a majority of people do not feel self-efficacious in their decision making. 

I’ve also begun to consider that surveillance affects decision making in an deeply negative way: while surveillance may have no effect or even encourage pro-social behavior, I wonder how easy it is to deny oneself (self-censor) with even the subtle threat of surveillance and punishment - even to censor yourself from yourself, which is a bizarre rabbit hole. What if pro-social behavior is anti-individual, and anti-social behavior is…pro-individual? 

At times, it dawns on me how romantic and technically elegant Bitcoin is as a solution. I wish the branding were entirely different, but that’s a totally different post. The way I see it, I hesitate from further self-education and practical adoption for two reasons:

1. Bitcoin can be positioned as the money to eclipse them all. I wonder if this exacerbates the actual issue as I see it: People do not need less options or choices, they need the practical self-trust that results from and encourages self-efficacious decision making. It is also true for me that some of the extremist cultural propositions among Bitcoiners can be stifling and suspect. To proposition Bitcoin in conjunction with values like carnivorism (as an easy example), “traditionalism”[^1], and “individualism”/strongmen suggest to me an ascetic restriction of choice that values one perspective of individual autonomy, action, and expression in the world, but also creates an image of aggression and authoritarianism. This is not the sort of culture that promotes global adoption - an anonymous culture might be more effective IMO. 

2. It may be true that if transactions were inherently private, individuals may feel more powerful in shaping the world with their earned money. But, if Bitcoin is treated the same way that other money is treated, this purpose is increasingly defeated, and further solutions might be with policy change in the financial (and technology) sector(s) to protect consumer privacy and/or more privacy-centered technological development. None of these things are mutually exclusive - however, if a major issue we face is that when people feel watched and potentially judged for their actions, they become less self-efficacious and fail to express themselves - and this failure impacts their future and therefore culture/the world, then any solution needs to address this and potentially retain this as a guiding value. 

To address the perspective that most of my critique has to do with culture, how does the current culture shape how the technology is developed and where the money flows and what is that compared to the effect of “the opposite” - how much does money spent and technology developed have a direct impact on culture? Which is of greater importance/impact in a moment to moment way? 

I think I would like to learn and hear more about the values of the technology of Bitcoin itself - and what I suspect may be a “high value” of the value of the technology itself. And I wonder how that can be talked about more to reinvigorate the “people culture” to more accurately reflect the culture of the technology. 

A bonus: What are some ideas for SN that you can think of that promote the value(s) of the technology of Bitcoin and/or privacy? And, more complexly, how can those ideas be implemented to prioritize those values? E.g., I’ve thought of the option of permanently deleting material as this can protect privacy; however, this conflicts with one of Bitcoin’s values as reflected by the distributed public ledger. Which is more important depends on your perspective on what is important to change the world - and what that ideal future looks like.

[^1]: What is traditional? We used to live under a single king or ruler or chief - is that what Bitcoiners want?

Bitcoin and me

**Fountain 1.1 is now live on iOS and Android with the social features re-built from the ground up using Nostr!**

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSqDVljxoE

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**Why Nostr?**

We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that’s worth listening to.

When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library.

But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn’t have any followers so your posts wouldn’t get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform.

Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr.

With Fountain’s new Nostr integration:

- You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain
- Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients
- Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed
- Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps

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**What’s changing in Fountain?**

Fountain is now a Nostr client. Your Fountain profile is the same as you Nostr profile and your activity will now be surfaced across the Nostr ecosystem. As a result, any content you interact with will reach more people and see higher engagement.

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**Connect or create a Nostr profile**

You can create a Nostr account in the Fountain app, or connect an existing account by importing your keys. To find people you were following before on Fountain, tap the icon in the top right on the home screen.
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**Share your boosts and comments on Nostr**

When you boost or comment on Fountain, your message will be shared on Nostr along with a Fountain link. Listeners on other Nostr clients will be able to see this activity, interact with it and start following you. Choose whether you want your activity to be shared on Nostr each time you boost or comment. If you choose not to share your activity on Nostr, it will still be visible in Fountain but other listeners will not be able to interact with it.

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**A new and improved home feed**

The Fountain home feed is now the audio layer of Nostr. You can switch between the Following feed (which just shows you audio content shared on Nostr by people you follow) and the Global feed (which shows you all audio content shared on Nostr). You can also now filter the home feed and profile pages by content type to just see podcast or music content.

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**Audio posts from Nostr clients now appear in Fountain
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Whenever a link to any audio content is posted on other Nostr clients like Primal, this activity will be surfaced in the Fountain home feed. If you’re linking to a podcast or music which is indexed in Fountain, we render it as a playable content card and it will appear on the content page as a comment.

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**Zaps**

Listeners on Fountain and other Nostr clients can zap your post and send you a payment to show their appreciation. Zaps replace what were previously called likes on Fountain. You can still like something, but likes are now free.

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**Mentions**

You can now mention another person in a comment, making it easy to send your listening recommendations to a friend or tag someone in to a conversation. Just type `@` followed by their username to find their profile.

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**NIP-73 External Content IDs
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The real magic is that Nostr gives apps a common language to talk to each other. Whilst the most popular clients are social media apps offering a similar experience to X such as Primal, Damus and Amethyst, we hope that more modern podcast and music apps will be excited by the potential of Nostr and the ability to deliver a more connected experience by building social features on top of it.

Fountain uses [NIP-73](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/73.md) to associate posts with podcast episodes using the globally unique `<podcast:guid>` ids.

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**We would love your feedback!
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The Nostr protocol is evolving rapidly and Fountain 1.1 is only scratching the surface of what’s possible. In the coming months, we will be fine-tuning Fountain’s nostr features and adding new ones too.

Please let me know your thoughts below as I'd love to get as much feedback as possible!

Fountain 1.1 - Open Social Podcasting Powered by Nostr

SN gets a "Here Comes Bitcoin" Sticker

DustinEsparzaT54

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A very nice ETF info tracker [dashboard]

PaulaPughYVJ

There are a lot of reasons to be scared at night that have nothing to do with aliens.


Bitkit Wallet AMA - John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym

FrederickDavilaOKN

I use nostr regularly but it wasn't until I discovered SN that I saw the real engagement we get here.

Unfortunately with nostr unless your name is jack, will, gigi, odell, walker or derek Unfortunately your note is largely ignored 🙁 

It's funny because when I was on nostr, I used to see SN links saying meme Monday 25k sats but you've got to post the meme on SN, I was like nah probably a scam 🤦

Only recently I've linked nostr to getalby and can zap to note without leaving the app

I've said this before but the SN model is excellent 👌 I know it's not pure lightning but it works brilliantly imo

Sulu: API Monetization with Lightning

AlexaHuerta8OE

It is not for everyone, but I really like more-speech (https://github.com/unclebob/more-speech).  The intended audience is programmers, especially Clojure programmers.  It is fascinating to read through Uncle Bob's Clojure specs for things like Bech32.
