Fanfares

what if you could paywall your music, art, photography, podcast, article, or whatever for sats? 🤠

Years before the Bitcoin whitepaper, Paul Rosenberg wrote the astonishingly prophetic "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men", wherein he depicts governments scrambling against a decentralized cryptographic society beyond control or coercion.

Fanfares is honored to have, with

's permission, the audiobook version of "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men" read by

purchasable via bitcoin lightning at https://fanfares.io/s/vd1MA5

Fanfares release #8 (v1.0.8) is live with big new features! 📯🎊

⚡ FULL BLOSSOM SUPPORT. Use your own blossom server or use ours!

⚡ Cashu-based purchase verification is super fast, super reliable, and handles payment splits flawlessly!

⚡ In-app Cashu wallet (NIP-60) can be topped up and used to pay for content, or send sats to lightning invoices, lightning addresses, or friends list npubs!

⚡ Library now syncs smoother and faster!

⚡ Tag people in your content and they get notified (NIP-27)

And a million bug fixes. Seriously guys, it's so much better than even a couple versions ago!

And we'll be leaving Early Access in a few weeks, so stay tuned for more big updates!

Until then: sell your content, not your soul (to big tech platforms)🫡

https://fanfares.io

GM! The attention economy must die and we are here to kill it 🫡

New on Fanfares: paywalled longform articles! (NIP-23)

Why give Substack your revenue when you can publish via nostr and get paid per article in P2P SATS 🤑 Your fans can earn referrals from sharing your content too, and you control it all via your private key. No subscriptions, just instant internet money commerce.

Need Early Access to Fanfares to try it out? Drop a comment below 👇

Would you want plagiarizers to get automatically "Community Noted"? 👀 Or even better, have clients send plagiarizers' incoming zaps to you instead?

what a crazy idea: buy something once and own it forever 😄

You will own the fruit of your labor and you will be happy.

GM to the bear market builders 🐻🏗️

GM! What are you creating today? ❤️‍🔥

GM nostr! 📯 Who wants to earn some sats? 🤑 We've shipped a lot of new features lately and we want to hire some testers to give us an outside perspective on our UX and find bugs to squash 💪

We're paying 20000 sats per hour (2 hours max for the first session) + 2000 sats per bug found! We're also offering bonuses if you record your screen (5000) and narrate your experience (5000).

How it works:

• you use Fanfares and complete the in-app objectives we give you and explore the app's features
• you write down + screenshot any bugs or confusing stuff
• you publish an encrypted note on Fanfares containing the objectives you completed and the bugs you found
• Fanfares buys your encrypted note to pay you!
• We'll zap you extra for each bug we verify

How to get involved:

• you must write and speak English
• send us a DM. Yes, a nostr DM. 😱😆
• we'll set up a short interview with you (~10 minutes)
• we'll give you access to the test site

We're only accepting a few testers at a time, so first come first serve!

In the mean time, if you haven't checked out fanfares.io lately, give it a try! We've got:

• music publishing (new!)
• bunker sign-in
• improved layouts, loading, and speed
• lots of great content from nostriches to buy!

What's coming:

• longform article publishing
• nostr cashu wallet (NIP-60)
• migration option for Coinos > cashu

Who's going to Thank God For Bitcoin in Texas next week? We are 🫡

Our trajectory of travel is clear. Digital ids will be required to access platforms.

The architecture allows anyone guilty of “wrong speech” to be removed, not just from platforms, but from economic life.

In a world where cash is no longer accepted, exclusion from an integrated digital banking system is total. You don’t need prisons. You just deny access.

Leaders are losing control of the narrative that they once held through newspapers, TV and radio.

Universal surveillance of speech combined with programmable money restores that control, quietly. But there is an alternative.

There exists an entire architecture of freedom from the digital prison.

Bitcoin is the separation of money and state. Nostr is the separation of speech and state.

But base layers aren’t enough.
People don’t migrate for ideology, they migrate for economic viability. The killer app is paid publishing. Paid publishing with self sovereign identity, sovereign content and sovereign income all break the platform spell. @Fanfares is the escape route. Every creator who earns more outside platforms makes it easier for the next one.
That’s how exit scales, not by coordination, but by demonstration. First Nostr creators.
Then Bitcoin creators.
Then everyone who can’t ignore better economics. Without creators, platforms will be ignored and digital ids will be unnecessary.

Banks will become unimportant when people experience money that they can own and that settles instantly.

We don’t have to fight them, we can just build around them.

We support the new system by exiting the old one.

We need to destroy advertising. Luckily, we have the tools to do it — the sovereign stack:

• bitcoin for value
• lightning for payment
• nostr for identity
• encryption for property
• sovereign affiliate links for discovery

Fanfares enables anyone to secure their digital content with encryption and sell it for zaps. Buyers get an affiliate link that earns them the split you set, securing your content through shared incentives.

When individuals can earn more money through direct sale of their content than from ad-driven platforms, advertising as we know it will die and be replaced by its primordial form: organic word of mouth recommendations leveraging your web of trust. #wot

Some secrets are worth the price 🔥

GM! We released Fanfares v1.2 yesterday! Here are some highlights:

• Very large file support! Upload audio files up to 1GB
• New chronological content feed shows what your friends have posted for sale or all content on Fanfares ("global")
• We overhauled the identity system to be more reliable and robust, paving the way for Bunker support in our next release
• Playback & decryption optimization for faster playing after purchase and better reliability
• Hundreds of bugfixes 🪲💥🔨💪

Let us know how you like it!

GM! If you've requested access to publish on fanfares.io check your account again. We've approved another batch of Early Access creators! 📯

If you want to join Early Access, be sure you login with the npub you want to publish from and request access. Send a link to your work so we can see what you do!

Who will tell them they can sell their memes for sats with fanfares.io ? 🤔

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Here's a crazy idea: sell your digital content for sats

Are you making money from your content? You could be on Fanfares:

welcome aboard! Looking forward to your content!

Advertising models exists because micropayments didn't exist. We can fix the incentives and make a better internet 🤝

What if I told you any nostr event could be sold for zaps?

new meme template just dropped best meme in the next 24hr gets 10k sats

property rights 🤝 digital content 🤝 free speech