Paused my newsletter again. Third time in 18 months. I'm kinda naturally an intermittent writer. I wonder how many people use substack's "pause billing" feature the way I do. Feels like I'm the only one who does this and everyone else just keeps grinding relentlessly.
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This is still too clumsy for me. I think my ideal subscription model would be a push-pull smart contract, where each time I send an email, I pull a bit of $ from contracts with subscribers, and if I don't send anything I don't get anything. And subscribers can pause/reverse too.
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This is an ideal smart contract application. You can even dynamically price things so that you get fixed USD denominated payments, and you don't even need a stablecoin to do it. Just current price.
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Basically a stable-priced subscription NFT essay thing on an unclocked pubsub protocol. Yo do this.
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In fact the smartest way to do this might be to have a general faucet product that subscribers can set up, and then any publisher can be sort of hook up to that faucet for a push-pull relationship that either can terminate anytime. You don't need an intermediary at all.
What's more, without the intermediary, and an NFT based model, there is no such thing as shutting down a newsletter and it going offline. Whoever subscribed to a thing will have permanent access to it via a token-locked IPFS artifact.
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Basically: publish encrypted on IPFS, airdrop an NFT key to everybody with an active sub. You could even create a "reader wallet" that just holds NFTs for all paid-for subs.
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Paetron has a “amount per x” option. YouTube creators do it per video. I find that annoying because I want to support the creator. Quality output is more important than output quantity at those scales.
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