If you have a post with 10,000 viewers
1% of them tip .50
that’s $50 direct to creator with none of the bad feelings of speculation involved for either party 

We have all the building blocks for this today but don’t do it because …. ? 

Too hard to socialize the behavior?
Profit motive — trading leads to many more txn for the chains and platforms? 
Content is actually valueless and no one will ever pay?

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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Isn’t Rewards doing a version of this but abstracting it away and covering the bill?

No, Rewards is platform comp! 

Creator comp to me usually comes in one of a few forms

Direct from fan/patronage
Platform rewards 
Brand deals/ads
Selling products to your audience

I def wouldn't mind getting Rewards + all those other things.

You def can if you build a big enough audience — all of it is work tho. You have to set up the stuff for it. Like an offering to sell doesn’t materialize out of nowhere, nor do brand deals 😂 

And you usually have to have a clean page too — at least for getting advertisers