> This guy's business is based on ripping people off, **how long can that last?**

https://youtu.be/KUW9JP3dkSM?si=GwcO-fEL8CYe5EnF&t=103


To be honest, maybe there's _slightly_ more demand for throwing away sats in hatred than there is for donations/voluntary support.

Have you been watching the rewards pool lately? Downzapping fever will save us.

Undisciplined

The interesting thing about Stacker News is that people are paying to get their content in front of others, but 

SN seems to demonstrate that a tip-driven economy can be supported

From these observations, your conclusion  falls apart. People backward-induct that there's more (or at least cost-covering) rewards coming back to a user, making posting and zapping in advance worth it.

Take that away (as the ever-shrinking rewards pool shows), and the dreamy, flying, V4V platform that is SN will have a date with gravity

econ

Micropayments redux - Nick Szabo (2007)

Scoresby

> The interesting thing about Stacker News is that people are paying to get their content in front of others, but **they earn more than that back in tips.**

>  SN seems to demonstrate that a tip-driven economy can be supported 

From these observations, your conclusion  falls apart. People backward-induct that there's more (or at least cost-covering) rewards coming back to a user, making posting and zapping in advance worth it. 
Take that away (as the ever-shrinking rewards pool shows), and the dreamy, flying, V4V platform that is SN will have a date with gravity