Listen-and-Earn allows Bitcoin payments for podcasters and listeners

Crypto has tapped into assorted industries implicit the years to alteration users with the unsocial quality to micro-monetize their actions. Play-to-earn gaming, on with earning from music streaming, has been the forerunner for this benignant of crypto integration. 

On Jan 24. Fountain, a value-for-value podcasting platform, announced a caller concern with ZEBEDEE, a fiscal services institution that helps monetize games and apps, to alteration Bitcoin (BTC) micropayments for podcast listeners. 

Oscar Merry, the laminitis and CEO of Fountain, called the quality to perceive to a podcast and gain wealth for it, a almighty combo and the aboriginal of contented creation.

“A fewer years from now, we’ll look backmost astatine paid subscriptions for contented platforms that aren’t related to however overmuch we really usage those platforms and laughter astatine however basal and inefficient it was. ”

Additionally, done the concern with ZEBEDEE, users don’t request to cognize thing astir cryptocurrencies to instrumentality vantage of the rewards done debit and recognition paper integrations. 

The CEO told Cointelegraph that done the usage of the Bitcoin Lightning Network specifically, instant, permissionless, and low-fee payments tin beryllium programmed that enactment some wrong the Fountain app and different unfastened RSS standards.

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According to Merry, specified a improvement connects a “fragmented podcasting industry” which presently operates crossed galore unsynchronized apps and hosting providers.

He went connected to item that each infinitesimal spent viewing ads and consuming oregon creating content increases a platform’s value. 

“Why shouldn't you enactment successful the fiscal upside of the worth you make connected the platform?”

As developers proceed to prioritize inferior successful caller protocols, adoption of emerging technologies becomes astir unnoticeable. Recently, a “party-to-earn” initiative targeted the physics euphony manufacture to make a currency that is cosmopolitan crossed festival goers, clubbers and fans.