Any podcast payment system has to give the app a cut
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there's alternatives beyond lightning and – They seem to be all easy to adopt. We just have to make sure, which has been our thing from the very beginning, we have to make sure that the app gets a cut.
Episode 267: Chocolove (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:16:38 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Looking past lightning to alternatives like x402, the funding tag or stablecoins, Dave restates the principle he and Adam held from the start: the app has to get paid. If a new system pays only creators, hosting companies and ad agencies, it's a failure.
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Episode 267: Chocolove (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:11:52 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
I think what we were trying to do, we were trying to build a system on top of podcasting that was also open. That would allow everybody to get paid.
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