I do!

Short songs are fiat, longer songs = longer attention spans, low time preference, and greater art IMHO

Well, I'm old 😉 I've had 10 careers by now. I always tend to seek adventure, from working in radio/TV to social work in the addiction field, I ended up here because I was in tech marketing after TV and got really into startup world at the same time I was learning Bitcoin. Then Nostr came along and I really found my tribe in Nostr PHX. We did an event in Feb 2024 with Sara Jade that really activated my V4V gene. It all kinda came together in my brain 🧠 having worked in radio for so long and having seen the dysfunction of the radio and records industry, it all clicked for me. I watched Sara rock Sam Means' warehouse for 30 minutes with her original songs and earn $750 in Bitcoin and I was sold. I became a V4V disciple, spreading the good word of Bitcoin and Nostr.

Songs should be at least 5:00, which still appears to be a lot to ask for. There are short songs that I think are perfect. But we need to change our time preference and music is so universal, this is one way we can learn to work towards a long game, fix our attention spans, and calibrate ourselves to fixing the money and the world.

I farted around with it in 2018 and 2019 knowing nothing. I was working in TV in 2020 during the pandemelection and that did it. I was looking for the escape hatch, questioning everything and that was it. I was a TV producer and had a front row seat to the world being on fire and I'd had it. I dove into my geneaology and Bitcoin pretty hard. 2020 forged me in the fire as a Bitcoiner.

vb4v != v4v I'm glad to see that you're making the distinction. True v4v sets zero limits on value https://value4value.info/

Hi Arkinox! Can't wait to see you IRL again this weekend at Nostr Valley! 🔥

OMG I WANT more tools like this! There are parts of the V4V community that may be insular and not like it, but that's silly if that happens. Quality is worth paying for and ensuring artists get paid for their work is vital to this ecosystem we're all creating. It may have to start out with low-sat prices, but we can see what folks are willing to pay. In the long-game, it won't matter because I see this growing (someday) to where prices can be low due to many fans... We're not there yet 😉 We've got a ways to go, but we're building these rails and you guys have done a good job! I gotta spend some time on Fanfares this week!

I think playlists are vital because I'm a sucker for playlists 💕

ALL of them! I think what we need to do is discover talent like the old A&R folks did decades ago. Let's find and "break" some new music in the community. If we don't do it, who will? Old school, grassroots A&R died with the music industry's slow death. We can revive this online with Nostr, Wavlake, and Fountain.

More folks need to know about Man Like Kweks and what he's doing in Tanzania to teach about Bitcoin adoption with Bitcoin Arusha. Has anyone interview My Friend Jimi of Australia yet? He's great!

We should start a Nostr thread on this 😂 this will take me all day

Thanks man!

Joe Martin's "The Jetsons" for rhyming the purple & orange!

Lately it seems it's getting folks to spend their Bitcoin. We've had years of HODLing culture. it's time to spend some sats on the world we want to see.

We will be at Nostr Valley in State College, PA this Saturday, 10/18 to take the Nostr roadshow for a spin around Penn State. We'll stream live to Nostr and hope for a good turnout—the area will be packed for parents weekend. We may have a good opportunity here to hand out some purple pills to a whole new crowd that's never seen this kind of craziness before. That's me being bullish though. It's hard to purple pill a cold crowd, which is what I expect it to be.

We've got a warm crowd coming up in Nashville on the 25th. These are bitcoiners because we'll be at Bitcoin Park. I want to see folks zapping Ainsley Costello and Joe Martin as they perform. I'm talking about in-person zappers and those watching online on Zap.Stream, Nostur, Primal, and—my personal favorite—Tunestr.io. We need Bitcoiners to participate more, both in person and online. We need folks to spend their bitcoin rather than HODL when it comes to pushing culture and creating this world we want to see. We need them right now to lead the way. These are the alleged smarted people on the planet because they found bitcoin first. I want to see them 'get it' when it comes to music and V4V.

I'm asking for the Bitcoin community to show up and show out. I didn't see this in Vegas in May. I want to see this now.

Bitcoiners need to participate. Be fans. Watch the shows online because you CAN. Zap artists because you CAN. Come out to Nostr Valley this weekend and Bitcoin park in Nashville next weekend. This is the bitcoin lifestyle y'all always wanted, right? It's culture, community, and a circular economy.

That's the first step. You can have a Bitcoin musical lifestyle. Watch us from Nostr Valley from anywhere in the world. Come out to enjoy live entertainment at Bitcoin Park! It won't just be music. It will be fellowship with like minds. We'll have The Bitcoin Painter out there making art LIVE. Shawn Yaeger will will grace us with a fireside chat. 🔥 and expect there to be a little AI building demo on Shakespeare with Derek and I involved... You guys wanna see us do the real nerd snipe IRL? We got you!

Nothing is cooler than meeting your fellow bitcoiners and Nostriches IRL while contributing to our open source ecosystem. Music, food, drinks, AI nerds, galaxy brains like Shawn... It's gonna be a great time! Can't wait to see you out there!

Haha! We have so many... Miners are undefeated. I can't say QW because that's showing favoritism. 😂 We've got some in the Rigly Telegram group who have made some good ones. We need a good zapathon on Nostr to help the memelord cream rise to the top... ⚡️

Fantastic question!

We gotta market it by doing it. We must make this look fun and cool and I don't think we've done a good job of that yet. There are still so few of us doing this, I want MOAR folks to join. I want more younger folks in this, bring me an army of cool Gen Z folks.

V4V is a clunky term. I think there are still too many things to explain and I'm trying to pepper my phrasing with more descriptive, everyday language rather than jargon. We aren't gonna get where we want to be with hashtags. If we get jargon-y, we're only speaking to our bubble and we need to break the purple wall.

We have to market it by showing its successes, that this is FUN (because it is) and that it's for everyone. This is a great equalizer to come along after DECADES of media consolidation (thanks 1996 Bill Clinton 🙄 ). The centralization is so baked in, most folks are unaware of it.

We have to be able to explain things simply in plain language so V4V can appeal to anyone. I think we lose people when we throw in "the B Word" and too much tech speak about wallets, zaps, and boost. We just have to show it works and be good stewards of the tech, which will mean being a little less tech-y and more palatable to the masses. This isn't yet for the masses, but we do need enough folks to get into it for it to grow.

OMG so many... any live production from putting a team on air for TV live during the Super B*wl or having someone in each each while interviewing Jennifer Lopez live on the radio... Nothing beats the chaos of doing live shit.

Oh man... that's like picking a favorite child. I am a sucker for singer songwriters like Tori Amos. She's too big to have a "need" for what we offer with Nostr and V4V. I want to see more musicians in general, the indie ones who need Nostr, V4V, and Bitcoin. Quite a few folks want to see big names get on Nostr, which I do hope for, but we will win when there's a healthy grassroots indie community thriving on Nostr. This is totally possible. Each one reach one. 🔥

I love it and want more of it. You can just open up Primal and see what's happening now. Could be someone on the 1s & 2s, could be ODELL and Marty, who knows? May be my bro QW and Avi doing PCR... I like that we never know what's on! I'm sure we could also use some kind of schedule posted somewhere, too.

I want way more folks doing this. I want more V4V podcasters. Getting the music online to discover is one thing. We need some curators to spend the time finding and curating it for the fans. This will help create more fans. it's a flywheel and we gotta get it spinning faster. Right now, the V4V hamster is asleep. Time to poke him and get more participation.

Shitposting, shenanigan instigating little sister for sure. Though I'm prob more mom ago 🤣

I was shitposting on Nostr as one does. It was back whenever we realized we could post a little status that would stick. I used mine to get on my Soapbox that songs should be longer. So I did an ALL CAPS ODELL style "MAKE SONGS LONGER" on mine. Because short songs are so fiat, songs should be longer. Kinda like how Saifedean talks about art and architecture worsening under fiat...songs have gotten shorter since 1971. Understanding low time preference is kinda important around here. Everything we do is a long game.

Hey, Nostr Dad is Fiatjaf! lol! Derek, however, is CEO of Nostr! Kidding. Soapbox Sessions is going well and we're having a great time rounding up Nostr news, AI news, and talking about ALL the Nostr gossip. We do mention Fiatjaf sometimes, and say GM to him just to get his goat. Everyone say GM to Fiatjaf today!