Cory Doctorow on Nostr: You can't use attention as a unit of account, a medium of exchange or a store of ...
You can't use attention as a unit of account, a medium of exchange or a store of value. Attention - like everything else that you can't build an economy upon, such as cryptocurrency - must be converted to *money* before it has economic significance. Hence that tooth-achingly trite high-tech neologism, "monetization."
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