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I'd love to be able to get paid for sats for work. The best I've done is contributing to Stacker.News back when they were still doing contributor bounties. I haven't done anything for a while, but that's more because my focus turned towards my SN research project vs. contributing code. My comparative advantage is still research work and not programming. No idea how I can get paid for sats for that.
back when they were still doing contributor bounties
Oh! I saw I got awarded some sats a few months ago but I didn't claim it. Didn't know it was gone. It was very generous imho - at least in my case.
I haven't done anything for a while, but that's more because my focus turned towards my SN research project vs. contributing code.
I think that your SN research project was awesome. You're very skilled.
It's also why I didn't put too much effort in running stats on the downzaps when they started happening - I feel like an imposter. I did some things in R, like try to see if those never ending downzaps were hurting @Scoresby's engagement [1], because that was hit hardest. But I am not a statistician and I can't make soup out of this. No sers. I will stick to reporting how many blocks are signaling BIP-110 😂
My comparative advantage is still research work and not programming. No idea how I can get paid for sats for that.
In applied form, I expect this to become needed. Not when everyone is panicking or partying due to NgD/NgU respectively, but in the middle, when businesses build. Some of the Bitcoin businesses have become big enough to need someone that can make soup of things.
If you're listed in https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/blob/master/awards.csv and still haven't been paid, I think they'd still be willing to pay.
I think they took away contributor bounties though because too many bots were trying to claim them.
Since I declined a salaried job offer post-interview today, I'm a freelancer still, so that makes me at the very least a mercenary, though to me that feels not so much a small business owner; I am the business, literally.
If today I get 2 opportunities to make into a gig and I'd have to choose between one that pays in sats, and one that pays in fiat, I'd of course take the sats. The problem I have is that there aren't many big businesses (which are my customers) that are willing or often even legally allowed to pay me in sats.
And then when I did score a big sats denominated gig I got walked out on and ignored at the final milestone payment coming due (because the suckers didn't buy the BTC up front.) So I'm hesitant to at least denominate contracts in BTC for multi-stage gigs because the counterparty needs to be ready for that too, and they aren't.
I think though that it's unwise to approach "small business" for sats as a registered business type of thing. It's not worth the trouble because it's all political, and we all know how the wind can change on Bitcoin. Instead, just sell products on ~AGORA instead of on Etsy. Maybe I'll try out offering services there, see if that works?