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ainsleycostello / Ainsley Costello

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2025-12-22 19:40:26 UTC

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The Bitcoin and Nostr communities aren't big enough to help cover costs for music yet. JoeMartin (nprofile…4au3) and I have both traveled, great distances, to perform for the communities (Bitcoin and Nostr) but always at my own expense. I know Roger9000 (nprofile…2jjt) has traveled extensively as well and not been able to figure out how to monetize it in a way that makes sense. He even wrote a Bitcoin Manifesto about it! Like Joe, I think it's coming - - one day. But we really need global listeners - our fans - to want to be here and they are not here yet. I love this community but I find that it is mostly developers and developer adjacent (podcasters, entreprenuers, those that were deplatformed for one reason or another). The music community is growing but until the normie can support music with Bitcoin (maybe without even knowing it) we will continue to struggle to find enough people to support even the most basic cost coverage.

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