110 sats \ 4 replies \ @manbytescamera 8 Sep 2022 \ on: We are the co-founders of STARBACKR - AMA bitcoin
Interesting project. Seems to me that the you needs to earn money as well. What percentage are you taking? How do we know that you are not incentivized to censor at some later point. Is the integrated lighting wallet noncustodial?
Yes, we do need to earn money as well. We are taking a 10% cut of a creators revenue, which is about half (or even less) of what other platforms take.
Could you please elaborate a little bit on that censorship-question?
And no, the integrated Lightning wallet is custodial. However, all payment dialogues have an option to display a Bolt11 invoice which can be settled with any external wallet.
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Thanks for the response.
You wrote, a platform free of moral censorship, how do you ensure this. It seems to me, the only way to ensure a platform free of censorship is if the platform were atop a protocol which is censorship resistant and platforms competed for customers who could migrate their content and viewers if censorship occurred.
Not sure if that makes sense.
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If you look into past incidents where platforms imposed moral standards on their creators, you will quickly finds that pretty much all of them were caused by pressure from payment processors. Just by fixing that we can eliminate the biggest risk.
But you are absolutely right, a truely decentralised platform is desirable and we will be happy to go that route when
A) there are protocols or tools that do not sacrifice accessibility or
B) it becomes necessary to ensure freedom of moral censorship
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Thanks, I look forward to trying out your platform.
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