TIL Patreon's estimated revenue in 2021 is $160m, and Substack's is $11.9m.

Anecdotal but I don't know anyone using Patreon yet know tons on Substack. Would have assumed less of a delta.

writing stuff about tech + decentralization

Yeah, take rates do seem to be high for these platforms.

Crypto should help with this imo. Crypto recurring subscription on some L2 = ultra cheap gas, no intermediaries, and small take rate depending on platform implementation

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

Dev. Writing "The Marketing Compass" newsletter, themed around marketing from first principles to help fellow devs learn to attract users and customers

Both Unlock and @loopcrypto provide solutions where buyers can authorize once and get crypto periodically withdrawn every N days. Great UX imo compared to what was previously possible.

Keep an eye on Paragraph in the next few weeks to see it in action :)

Is there a good solution for recurring billing with crypto yet? My understanding is that automatic payments were difficult because each automatic payment has to be signed by the wallet