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132 sats \ 3 replies \ @JoeNakamoto OP 7h \ parent \ on: AMA with Joe Nakamoto: Bitcoin Journalist, MC & Amateur Shitcoin Troll AMA
Great question, thanks!
I am impatient and I demand a lot of myself.
I know my content is improving, slowly, incremently, but making watchable real world bicoin stories is bloody hard. That's why the likes of Cointelegraph and CoinDesk and even Bitcoin Magazine don't do it.
I misjudged the appetite or market for low production, real world bitcoin stories and underestimated how hard it would be to venture out, solo.
I have also learned that a lot of people on youtube watch passively, so they might chuck on a podcast in the background while cleaning, for example. Or a commentator or a talk show or music channel.
Even the documentary channels that are animated / talking head explainers don't require a huge amount of active watching.
A lot of my content requires active watching, and i am strugglign to find those viewers. I thought i could cater to that market on youtube this year, and i haven't grown as much as i would have liked–i had a goal of 10k subs and i have way way missed it.
The metrics are one way for me to understand if i'm doing a good job.
Which leads to the ultimate vision.
It's the same as many other bitcoiners, i imagine—help people understand bitcoin and ya know, acquire some bitcoin along the way!
However, for me I'm also investigating all the memes and sayings we have. Don't trust, verify the "bank the unbanked" idea, or see for myself if bitcoin really is a hedge for people in South Africa.
For example, Alex Gladstein's book Check Your Financial Privilege sent me to Cuba and back to Senegal. I had to see for myself, and report on it, if Bitcoin was actually being used and how.
I'm going off tangent but i like the bitcoin school idea although not in ES. I like the seasons.
I love teaching and i see what i do as being a sort of offshot of teaching. I also love performing and being on stage—just entertaining people generallly—so maybe i explore teaching at a later stage.
for now, it's Joe Nakamoto content and investigations as much as possible :)
what you're doing is super hard, i can only imagine the ball juggling of making content while traveling and everything in between.
what factors influence where you visit and do you think you could spin off a Nakomoto daily news thing, a bit like Swan does every day, to keep content flowing in between lengthier investigations?
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what factors influence where you visit and do you think you could spin off a Nakomoto daily news thing, a bit like Swan does every day, to keep content flowing in between lengthier investigations?
i don't want to do daily news because it just doesn't really interest me—what i am doing now is behind the scenes podcasts. These podcasts help form the documentaries i make.
Also it's really fun talking about bitcoin with smart people for an hour—who knew, right!
So yeah, more podcasts in 2025. And they will almost exclusively be in person!
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makes sense. What's the name of the pod so I can add it to fountain?
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