Earning bitcoins and receiving them through the Lightning network for listening to your favorite podcast, commenting on it or sharing it, is now possible thanks to the Fountain aggregator, in its new version 0.4.0.
Fountain is a podcast aggregator that initially allowed podcast creators to receive bitcoin from their listeners, but now, the audience can also earn BTC for participating as a community and user of the application.
“The time and attention we give to technology platforms is incredibly valuable. Every minute we spend consuming content, creating content, or viewing advertising adds value to the platform you’re using,” Fountain said in a post on his blog. Blog.
There are three ways to earn satoshis (fractions of BTC) with Fountain, they explain: listening to the podcasts of your choice, listening to promoted content, and sharing clips and comments from the podcasts you like, in what would be the interactive or social layer of Fountain. . In that way, listeners, creators and advertisers alike are rewardedin a scheme named Value for Value o Value for Value.
The way that clips or comments receive satoshis is through “likes” (likes) from other users. Every time a user likes a clip or comment, its author or creator receives 10 satoshis for it.
As detailed, Every minute a podcast is listened to, the user will earn satoshis, which will be saved in your native Fountain wallet.. From there they can be sent to their favorite podcast. Also, they indicate that the user can increase earnings through a referral system, where by recommending other users to download the application you will also receive satoshis.
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People want to support the podcasts they love, but if you don’t have bitcoin and don’t know how to use a Lightning wallet, switching to a podcast app like Fountain isn’t easy.
We believe that the Value for Value format is a more fruitful system for all, but to make it grow we must make it accessible to all. Allowing users to earn bitcoin as soon as they open Fountain for the first time brings us one step closer to achieving this. Earn just listening to your favorite podcasts and send money back to show your support.
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Bitcoin integrates with the Internet to realize the Web3
This step by Fountain is one more among other applications and tools that have emerged to bring Bitcoin closer to a communication protocol such as the Internet.
This premise is the same as that of the so-called Web3, which seeks to connect electronic money protocols with the Internet. Going further, there is already the possibility to connect a Lightning node to an Internet browser.
Fountain is basically a browser to access podcastswhich is content in audio format, so that by having a Lightning wallet integrated, Bitcoin is registered on this platform and on the Internet.