Wonder what a harberger tax-ish hypersub would look like. Each user pays a self assessed price to keep their subscription, but subscription can be taken over by anyone who pays more

For the creator it results in close to maximally efficient pricing. For the subscriber it feels like you’re not in control of the subscription, there’s no guarantee you’d have it tomorrow. This is a worse UX

Like orb.land ? Or multiple concurrent subscribers?

i pay 3 months at .001 eth/month (same as how it works today)

in month 2, somebody comes and takes my subscription NFT by paying .002 eth/month for 5 months

i'll get refunded my unpaid amount (so in this case, funds would have to be streamed to creator, not paid all upfront)

its essentially a continuous auction for the subscription price, per NFT

you would then imagine that all subscriptions end up converging to the true market price of the subscription (the highest price at which nobody else wants to come in and out"bid" existing subscriptions), as opposed to how it is today where the creator sets a price (which is economically inefficient for the creator)

thanks for sharing, hadn't seen this! thinking multiple concurrent subscribers, something like this:

thanks for sharing, hadn't seen this! thinking multiple concurrent subscribers, something like this:

https://warpcast.com/six/0x71bba942

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in this model each person pays each month? so you can't lock in your membership by paying for months up front?

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yeah probably in the dunbar's number range, somewhere in between club ted and proxy studio

What size group do you think this is best suited for?

I immediately think about dunbar’s number and how this mechanism could potentially better narrow down the exact number for particular groups/use cases

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Yeah only makes sense for specific use cases. some community hypersubs do this, eg /proxystudio and /clubted

This would require an artificial cap on subscriptions, and most creators don’t want to limit reach.  Wouldn’t work for a newsletter, but might for a super tier that gives you direct access to the creator (ie. the scarcity is real).

I’d say go full harberger tax hypersub. Own the seat on the sub and set your buy-out price — sub creator gets a daily tax. 

For limited size groups with a lot of community value/pride, seems like a great way to make the subscription cost and membership efficient.