It's a loooong rip and I'm riffin' hard, y'all. Getting excited because the American legal system has come down (finally) on big corporations misses the point. We've built an alternate system that can work for artists and fans. And we need your participation in it. Or else Corporations and Big Tech™ will KEEP WINNING. You want the artists & fans to win, don't you? You don't want indie music and the economy it upholds to die, do you? You'd rather pay for music with BTC than keep paying endless subscriptions that benefit big CEOs instead of your local artists, venues, and economy, right? In this rip, I'm talking about: The government breaking up monopolies is a good start but won't return power to artists or fans \ The real fix is already built: a Bitcoin and Nostr-based music ecosystem that lets fans pay artists directly with no middlemen, no fees, no algorithms, no censorship \ How it works: fans send sats (Bitcoin) directly to artists through the Lightning Network, artist receives it instantly, splits it however they want, no Stripe, no banks, no waiting \ What a zap is: a direct Bitcoin tip from fan to artist inside any Nostr app \ ditto.pub is the on-ramp: post music, build community, can't be deplatformed, no ID required, no subscription fees, no ads \ Other apps in the ecosystem worth downloading: Fountain (fountain.fm), Wavlake (wavlake.com), Primal, Nostr on the web: Tunestr (tunestr.io) \ Sarah Jade earned $700 in 30 minutes playing original music at a small Phoenix show with fewer than two dozen people in the room, plus online viewers zapping from Tunestr \ Matthias McIntyre posted daily violin videos on Nostr all of August, grew to 400 followers fast, earned directly from fans across multiple apps \ Joe Martin example: Heather can watch him play in London from Phoenix and send him money in real time via Lightning \ Call to musicians: get on ditto.pub, post your music, ask questions, give feedback on what doesn't work \ Call to Bitcoiners: stop making excuses, the parallel music system exists, your 21 sat zap on Fountain or Wavlake actually moves the needle unlike a million Spotify streams \ NosVegas is Tuesday April 28, 7pm to 1am, We All Scream at 517 Fremont Street, $21 tickets: https://nosvegas.shakespeare.wtf/ \\\ Talks first, then live music from Sarah Jade, Abel James, The Higher Low, at least one surprise guest, then DJ Tatum Turnup \ Stream the show live at tunestr.io if you can't be there in person
