David Hurley
@hurls
Crypto should fund high-quality writing sustainably through tokens but we haven't figured it out yet. If good writing generates attention and tokens are a great way to monetize attention, why is it easier to sell subscriptions as a writer than it is to sell tokens? We've tried NFTs. You can collect a post on Paragraph but that's not a great way to make money as a collector. I doubt anyone is speculating on Paragraph NFTs and without speculation, it's impossible to make money sustainably as a writer selling NFTs. Could ERC-20s be a better token standard for writing? Imagine each post had it's own memecoin and that readers could speculate on. Would they want to? Or instead of subscribing to view a writer's content you bought their token for access? I'm not sure what the right token model is for writing but hoping to see more experiments here.
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alex
@proxystudio.eth
Highly doubt it but open to being wrong. Would require lots of distribution and some form of economics that aligns body of patrons, readers, fans, paying costumers with writers & the publishing “org” @jihad was funded substantially to work on bringing more high quality writing to the space
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🎀 sonya (in theory) 🐰
@sonyasupposedly
> without speculation, it's impossible to make money sustainably as a writer selling NFTs. hypersub is the synthesis of NFTs and subscriptions!
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