Just a shower thought I had today. (inspired by a recent Preston Pysh podcast)

On Stacker News you can stack sats simply by commenting on another users post.

Now suppose for arguments sake the Nostr protocol grows to hundreds of millions of users, and lightning payments are native all throughout the protocol, every post/comment/image etc. can be monetized much the same way that a comment is on Stacker News. Only, every post is owned and controlled by it's user, there is no centralized power that can remove/edit the post. Ownership/control of the post can even be transferred from one user to another.

And then maybe someone with 1 million followers like Peter Schiff makes a post about how bitcoin doesn't have any intrinsic value and any day now the price is going to crash from $500k to $0, and then another user responds with a hilarious meme -- that meme might get 10,000 likes, maybe 50,000 likes, maybe it generates millions of sats to the person who posted the meme because everyone thinks it's so funny and they appreciate the laugh so they send value for value.

The meme might even be evergreen content.. people who stumble upon the thread years later will still be rewarding the meme with sats. But maybe somewhere along the way, the person who posted the meme wants to sell/transfer all future "royalties" to the highest bidder?

So someone makes a post, they sell the "rights" to that post.. they transfer physical ownership at the protocol level.. this meme is unique, it can't be replicated. People can of course copy it and repost it themselves, but they can't copy the network effect of the original post. Ever see two people post the same meme on twitter and one has 5000 likes and the other has 3?

You might call this an NFT. A jpg with value. A real revenue stream.

I'm not saying this is necessarily good, or desirable, or realistic just a thought.

It would be pretty cool if you could shitpost on Nostr and 10 minutes later you can buy a beer with the proceeds, without ever touching fiat or a bank or a middleman.

PS I don't care for NFT's and have never owned an NFT and have no plans to own an NFT.