44 sats \ 2 replies \ @jimmysong 3 Mar 2022
What I noticed when I did mine was that I tried to be more clever with my replies, which I think made it more entertaining. If there was a reasonable way to video replies for an AMA, I think that would be really fun.
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46 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 3 Mar 2022
Yeah, there are all sorts of mediums that could benefit from this kind of audience funded business model.
What if it was a YouTube/Twitch livestream where viewers could stream in sats by the second?
What if Twitter made each like/rt cost 10 sats, which goes to the creator of the tweet?
At scale, a lot of these applications would create some serious income for content creators.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 3 Mar 2022
kind of interesting to think about. on twitter there might even be an economy to actually pay sats for the retweets as most people are tweeting into the void and hoping others with more influence pick up and broadcast their stuff.
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 2 Mar 2022
Really curious to see how big these AMAs could become.
In the last 6 AMAs, the average payment sent in by a visitor was 166 sats, or about 8 cents.
Seems realistic to think that average payment size will hold, maybe even grow, as the number of users on Stacker News grows.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @uco 3 Mar 2022
As @jimmysong suggested adding video would make a huge difference. Maybe the AMA speaker could host the video stream on Zoom or ughh YouTube live but all interactions and comments would go thru SN.
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26 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 3 Mar 2022
Brave has been a real failure in this area.
The notion of creating a new web ecosystem uniting: Content Providers, Services, Ad-Buyers, and Users is really the only way to break the current model of web from Google.
Sadly, Eich's use of a shitcoin undermined the entire concept and is now fatally flawed (please submit your passport scan + selfie to move your $1.56 of useless shitcoin).
He should've used LN - I actually can't believe someone hasn't just forked Brave and removed all the shitcoin and replace with a LN wallet....
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6 sats \ 4 replies \ @thrown 3 Mar 2022
Isn’t the Alby browser extension making it so you can have lightning in all browsers?
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr OP 3 Mar 2022
Right now I believe Alby is a Chrome extension, but could def see a native Lightning wallet built into other browsers too.
Notably, Impervious is launching their Lightning-native browser on April 7th, will be interesting to see what they've been building!
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @thrown 3 Mar 2022
I think the Impervious branding makes it dead in the water in terms of adoption.
But yes, the question will be if people want a separate browser or just an extension. Both have pros/cons.
Realistically, Chromium browsers are like 90% of the market though, right? I bet even Impervious is based on Chromium.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Mar 2022
They might've forked Firefox.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 3 Mar 2022
Agree regarding pros/cons of extension vs browser.
For me, I think the gold ring is full browser. Imagine fully integrated paid private services: vpn, voip, email, etc.
Also you could just do neat things that would be difficult otherwise, like during a standard ecommerce checkout, generate a virtual VISA on-the-fly (paying in background by LN) for merchants that don't yet support BTC/LN.
The hard thing about all of this is getting this into mobile space and thats where browser+extension may be the winner.
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