That's actually pretty cool! Would be really nice to see how lightning could enable an ad split between the listener and the host. The biggest concern with transactions this small is that the mental bandwidth to do them outweighs the transaction itself. Nick Szabo wrote an interesting [paper](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-mental-transaction-costs.pdf) on why microtransactions lost to advertising the first time around. A super fluid ux seems to be the key in these things. 

I just saw an ad by swan on fountain where they paid 100 sats for listening to their 15 second advert. This is very cool! If somehow the segments of a podcast could be paid at different rates that would be amazing, then people wouldn't want to skip past them

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Fountain App Challenges?

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It does if it's the podcast producer funding the sats for listeners, in particular if they include ads. It's also useful if you want to promote your podcast, kind of like offering lunch to people who are willing to attend your sales pitch. You don't get any better data about number of ears when you're literally paying for them with micropayments.