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Moxiesplaining Journal Day 25: Music Journalism + Moxie?

Next up in my publishing queue is a musician interview I've worked on for years. 

I released the first version on Substack in 2018 to paid subscribers only.

I'm extremely excited to finally release it to the public on @paragraph.

I never wanted to paywall the interview. I did so only because at the time it was the best available option for recouping even a fraction of my out-of-pocket production costs. 

Music journalism has been gutted, leaving writers with few ethical funding options for interviews in niche genres (my specialty). 

So this interview may be my last.

BUT: fully formatted writings can now be read in-frame via mini-apps on FC, and can also be eligible to earn Moxie rewards via a "Moxie wrapper." (Or maybe other ways too?)

I'd like to see what's possible with Moxie. 

Maybe there's still hope.

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(Moxiesplaining Journal is a daily window into my observations, learnings, and the view of Moxie from where I sit as a writer + editor).

airstack

Moxiesplaining Journal Day 24: Selling Fan Tokens

What happens when people sell Fan Tokens?

I haven’t sold any yet, and don’t plan to for quite awhile. I plan to lock when Moxie Power launches.

But selling is the only way to realize gains, so I imagine most people will sell some of their holdings sooner or later.

When that time comes, what factors affect the outcome?

A few that come to mind:
- every token sold slightly reduces the price for the next buyer/seller
- 5% fee (2.5% burned; 2.5% to the Fan Token entity)
- taxation (e.g., cost basis and capital gains tax on profits)
- slippage (how to estimate?)

In some cases it looks like sellers end up with a loss when they were (presumably) hoping to profit.

Even after reviewing the docs I still feel unclear on what people end up with when they sell, so I'm hoping to learn in public. 

Thoughts...?

(NFA, of course).

(Moxiesplaining Journal is a daily window into my observations, learnings, and the view of Moxie from where I sit as a writer + editor).

Moxiesplaining Journal Day 21: Publishing In-Frame with Paragraph + Moxie

Ever since Moxie launched, there have been higher economic incentives for casting than for writing long-form essays.

Not ideal for long-form writers like me.

For Moxiesplaining Journal, I do both: cast, earn Moxie, and then collect the week’s casts into a Paragraph post.

But this week I learned two exciting things:

1) @paragraph has a new feature that makes entire articles (formatting and all) readable in-feed as “mini-apps.”

2) There’s a Moxie frame wrapper that makes any URL Moxie-eligible by wrapping it with your Airstack API key. (/hypersub subscription required. See /wctools for info). 

So I thought: could writers combine these things to earn Moxie for long-form work + reward readers for reading it in-frame?

I have some big releases coming up soon. 

It may be time to experiment.

(Moxiesplaining Journal is a daily window into my observations, learnings, and the view of Moxie from where I sit as a writer + editor).

If you missed day 24 and and any earlier casts in this 30-day experiment, you can catch up starting with the cast below. 

I've also linked to the day 21 cast, since I wrote about publishing that day too.

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

If you missed day 24 and and any earlier casts in this 30-day experiment, you can catch up starting with the cast below. 

I've also linked to the day 21 cast, since I wrote about publishing that day too.

https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x11f83c0d

https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x8d0b7537