How to introduce my normie audience to lightning?
61 sats \ 7 comments \ @andyflattery 20 Mar 2022 bitcoin
I have a podcast that is starting to get a few BOOSTS trickling in (The Reformed Financial Advisor pod). Im sold, this value for value stuff exciting. Since my podcast is not explicitly about the lightning network or podcasting 2.0, I'm trying to think of how I can warm my audience up to this and get them bought in. So far, I have done nothing to really "engage" with my audience. Maybe this is my time, especially with CashApp now lightning enabled and the podcasting apps continuing to improve.
Ideas:
  1. The Adam Curry/Dave Jones model - Should I just copy these guys and read the BOOSTS every episode and really pump it up? It is starting to look like Fountain may be the best place to send my audience to listen, BOOST, and now even see other listeners comments.
  2. The Stacker news option - Or I could create a post for every new episode and direct listeners to go there to join the conversation. Maybe I share the stacker news post link in the show notes of every episode. The regular stacker news community may or many not care for the content, but at least my audience would have a common place to converge. The upside here is that my listeners could get paid in sats themselves for adding to the discussion (with the added bonus of avoiding twitter). I could even pay an extra sats bounty every week for my favorite comment to stir it up.
  3. Telegram (or something else) - The tried and true method seems to be in moderating a group on one of these platforms. I have seen how telegram enabling lightning tips could be something as well.
Stacker News seems like the tribe that has the most people thinking about this so I welcome your comments.
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 20 Mar 2022
I wrote several guides (on my substack) for normies and noobs (in special ones about LN). Be my guest, use them all as you like, I suggest this order:
  1. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/21-reasons-why-bitcoin-will-save
  2. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-be-your-own-bank-think-like
  3. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-wallets-comparison
  4. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-ln-wallet-how-to-fund-it
  5. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lntxbot-users-guide
  6. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/umbrel-bitcoin-ln-node
  7. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-network-is-awesome
  8. https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/what-bitcoin-ln-node-software-can
and many more on my substack. Copy, use all the info as you like, is all free, no copyright, no license all for everybody. Important is that we will FUCK THE BANKS AND THE GOVS. FREE THE WORLD!
If a normie, after reading all of these, still don't get it... I am sorry but NGMI.
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @WittyUsername30 20 Mar 2022 freebie
All are intriguing. I like Option 1 the best, esp if you do it at the beginning and mention podcasting 2.0 apps that listeners can download
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 21 Mar 2022
I think #1 model is a good approach.
You could also start doing #2 - more as a test, because if more podcasters start doing the same, it won't scale well with the current experience in SN (before we have subs).
Another suggestion I would have is that you create written original content on SN associated with the topic in your episode, you post it ahead of time and then maybe go through the comments in the episode if there are some good ones (for this it's good to post the content ~2 days before episode recording, encourage people to post SN comments on your twitter, etc...). This applies mostly if it's related to Bitcoin, Finance, Privacy and Freedom... (other topics are a bit frown upon at this point...)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @andyflattery OP 21 Mar 2022 freebie
I like this latter suggestion a lot. Perusing some of the posts on this site, it doesn't seem super compelling to turn it into just another place-where-influencers-post-their-episode-link.
1 sat \ 2 replies \ @uco 21 Mar 2022
Instead of Cash App, I would highly recommend Wallet of Satoshi to get your audience started.
  1. Have you audience download Wallet of Satoshi (iOS and Android) then,
  2. Click "RECEIVE" in the app
  3. Click on "Lightning Address"
  4. Each user will have a unique Lightning address in the format "user123@walletofsatoshi.com"
  1. Ask your audience for the first 50 listeners to send you their Lightning address.
  2. You airdrop 1000 sats in each wallet for them to experiment.
Working with a Lightning address i.e. user123@walletofsatoshi.com is so much easier for a beginner than pasting invoices imho.
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2 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 21 Mar 2022
The thing is that in CashApp you can buy bitcoin for fiat. For Andy's audience they may be primarily interested in buying. Ideally the audience would go through the no-KYC path and you should definitely try explaining that. Reading through all ideas in #12106 gives you enough of options.
If there's no other way, then I'd suggest Strike instead of CashApp. Strike has better rate and no fees, only .2% spread. It also has better UX imho.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @andyflattery OP 21 Mar 2022 freebie
Good point. On a related note, where did you find out that Strike makes a .2% spread? I've been wanting to research that for all of these exchanges.