I'm paying 1 sat to post this because I think it's *valuable enough* to say—that's why I'm also investing a bit of time to type this. The 1 sat investment reflects the time investment. Whether my investment "pays off"—whether I recoup or even profit off my 1 sat—depends on you guys. It's like introducing free market action into individual decision-making.

If I never made *any* sats, I would conclude my commentary is "wasting my time" and therefore "wasting my sats"—so you see how the two are being joined together here at the microeconomic level? That's extremely innovative and cool. 😎

See, Stacker News is deceivingly simple. On the surface this is "Reddit With Sats." But look *just a bit* deeper and this is one of the first and most successful implementation of the new cybereconomy—it's right up there with Nostr for potential. Right now we mostly shoot the shit, though there are excellent technical resources here if you work the search button.

But imagine this exact same model applied to, say, open source development on a future version of Github. It's historically very hard for open source developers to be compensated by the community they directly benefit, which is just a small injustice we've tolerated for lack of a better option. Couldn't something like this fix that issue, in all kinds of contexts?