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Calling all bitcoin plebs.... Value For Value ⚡⚡⚡

16.6k sats \ 29 comments \ @joemartinmusic 11 Oct 2022 bitcoin freebie

Hi fellow bitcoin plebs and lightning bulls! I'm a musician and just released my latest song on a value for value model. To the outside, non bitcoin world, I probably look crazy but I want to try and prove a point... That there is a better way for artists to monetise their music than just simply uploading to Spotify, Apple or Youtube which leaves artists with little or nothing to show for their work... I'm calling on this community to ask a big favour. If ya'll have the time, please check out the song at my website www.joemartinmusic.com/highgravity and if you like it, possibly consider sharing my twitter thread on value for value (@joemartinmusic). I've already had some exremely generous folks tip and share and am blown away with the kindness of this community, so thank you! 🧡

Ps. As well as proving the concept of V4V, I'm also trying to show what the tech is capable of, so even a small tip of a penny, can go a long way and prove a point that lightning can do what no other payment network can! ⚡⚡⚡

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456 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 11 Oct 2022

Here +1000 There are some good ways to monetize your work with BTC/LN. I see you added a tip button on your web. Good. Here some more options to expand:

https://www.stacksats.how/ - collection of solutions to stack sats for content creators
https://www.wavlake.com/ - pay sats to listen music directly from artists
https://www.getmash.com/ - Earn more for what you build
https://geyser.fund/ - crowdfunding projects on Lightning
https://starbackr.com/ - content creators paid with sats
https://lightning.video/ - livestream or upload videos and earn sats
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/tree/main/lnbits/extensions/livestream - DJ Livestream with LNbits

and many more https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-network-is-awesome

369 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 11 Oct 2022 freebie

This is awesome, will look into all of these, thank you!

446 sats \ 0 replies \ @SodaPop 12 Oct 2022 freebie

More comments like this one please!! Thank you

240 sats \ 0 replies \ @kobold 11 Oct 2022 freebie

+1 for getmash

315 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 11 Oct 2022 freebie

Perhaps you can find ways to monetize your music with the help of the Lightning Network. Im not a musician but perhaps there are music platforms that uses the listen2earn model. That would be awesome.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Louferlou 11 Oct 2022 freebie

Hey, just sent you some sats here and on your BTCpay, your song is great well done dude.

You should also add a Bitcoin checkout option for your merch, rather than just the awful Paypal, what do you think ? It should not be to difficult for you as you already managed to receive Bitcoin tips :)

Anyway keep going !

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 18 Oct 2022 freebie

This is my plan. I want to do this song as a beta test and then roll out lightning for all my merch, gig tickets etc. I will even have limited items that can only be purchesed with bitcoin or lightning eventually. I've not figured out how to ask people for their shipping address with BTC pay server yet... Will figure it out when I have a bit more time on my hands to research

22 sats \ 3 replies \ @bumi 11 Oct 2022

nice! super cool that you take this route! please share your experience after a while. At Alby we build tools to make such payments easy and bring it down to one click. Easiness and speed for the user is essential for the conversion rate - imo we must make it online as easy as dropping a dollar for a musician on the street (but more fun at the same time :D)

I recently also made a simple boost button. It uses WebLN to request the payment. https://getalby.github.io/simple-boost/ Another option is this widget: https://widgets.twentyuno.net/

I also see you have a chat on that page. in the podcasting world boostagrams work really well - those are basically attaching sats to the messages a fan sends. we now have programmable money so we can rethink the interactions and attach value streams from fans to artists.

300 sats \ 1 reply \ @joemartinmusic OP 11 Oct 2022 freebie

Alby is great, so convenient being able to do a one click transaction from the browser! Basically, I'm running this release as a proof of concept and once strike is out in the UK which I'm hoping will be within the next 6 months or so, I will start encouraging regular fans to engage through the strike app as it will be easy for them to onboard and they can take it further if they're interested.. Don't know if that's a good idea...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bumi 11 Oct 2022

the nice thing about lightning is also that it does not matter who solves the onboarding problem. All of the websites and apps using lightning will benefit from that.

but onramp is also for Alby an important topic. "regular fans" want to put their fiat in, that's then transferred as sats.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 18 Oct 2022

Thanks for the widget idea, just embedded it in my site, works great! https://www.joemartinmusic.com/highgravity

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @kr 11 Oct 2022

welcome to SN!

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 11 Oct 2022

Great idea. I sent you sats here and on your site

307 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 11 Oct 2022 freebie

Thank you so much! My plan is 1 month after the release to run the numbers and show the stats of how many streams it would have taken me to earn that much... Think people will find it interesting

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @UnitOfAccount 11 Oct 2022

Best of luck mate, here’s some sats!

266 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 11 Oct 2022 freebie

Thank you, really appreciate it dude!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ealvar13 20 Oct 2022

Done. Cool stuff : )

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 25 Oct 2022

thank you!!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @juan 15 Oct 2022

You should add this widget you can customize and get tips via LN, the user can do it right from the landing page without having to go to the btcpay voltage landing page!

https://widgets.twentyuno.net/get-started

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 18 Oct 2022

wow, this is very cool! I likw how you can send a message with LNURL. Will integrate this in the near future!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Risky 12 Oct 2022

Great song! This entire thread has so much value in the comments too. I sent a small tip but I am an ignorant man, I didn't quite know what GBP was. Perhaps you can implement a Satoshi denomination in your BTCPay server. Great job. I like to write and would love to monetize it in a v4v way some how but I've been apprehensive. Your work has certainly eased some of that. Thank you

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joemartinmusic OP 18 Oct 2022

thank you for the kind words. This means a lot. I want to release the numbers on how this V4V release has gone at the end of the month, and hope to start onboarding other artists I know