btc on Nostr: I would look past the illustrator’s work as they are not the author. I think it was ...

I would look past the illustrator’s work as they are not the author.

I think it was in 2013 that Prince said “the internet is over” to The Guardian. He was ridiculed for the statement at the time, but the gap between what an artist tries to convey and what the audience understands is often wide. I increasingly see the statement as very prescient. The internet isn’t what it was. Feeds are alienating, opt-in spam, and websites are a dying art.

On Nostr, we herald the ability to rectify much of this while we also paradoxically create an even more powerful and dangerous incentive: money for engagement.

On balance, I do feel it is likely to be an improvement: at the very least, the financial relationship between creation, creator and audience is direct and transparent. In an optimistic light, real artists and true quality will rise to the top and have the means to go further… but rarely does the utopian vision for a technology play out.

I remain hopeful, because the contemporary internet is indeed rather shite.