We need to make Ethereum subscriptions work. There's significant progress towards an implementation thanks to @owocki and crew, but we need someone to bring it over the finish line. A $25k grant exists as an incentive to complete this.
github.com/ethereum/EIPs/…
github.com/ethereum/EIPs/…
This is two years old, but is a technical deep dive into how you'd implement this. Someone should take Ethereum subscriptions & make them work for Ghost memberships. That'd be a powerful open source alternative to Substack, which is great but centralized. gitcoin.co/blog/technical…
Ghost is open source, has membership functionality, and supports the addition of new payment options. It's a great initial target for a concrete working implementation of Ethereum subscriptions.
ghost.org/docs/members/r…
ghost.org/docs/members/r…
A big win of crypto subscriptions is that we could more easily create "dynamic newspapers" from networks of independent blogs.
Each subscriber sets a monthly budget, and then adds/subtracts people they want to support, like a Twitter list.
Each subscriber sets a monthly budget, and then adds/subtracts people they want to support, like a Twitter list.
Why would crypto make this easier? Because it'd be a simple standard that each blog could implement.
In a naive implementation, each blog proprietor could just paste an ETH/BTC address on their site to get subscriptions. A more privacy-preserving variant might require a plugin.
In a naive implementation, each blog proprietor could just paste an ETH/BTC address on their site to get subscriptions. A more privacy-preserving variant might require a plugin.
