Topic: Sats

Adam Curry describes a seamless payment experience using the Strike wallet to send sats to the Linux Unplugged podcast. The segment highlights the effectiveness of the Buzzsprout-style single-page payment portal and encourages app developers to make funding tags more prominent.

Adam Curry reads boost messages from TrueFans and Fountain, including a note from Martin Lindeskoke regarding a symbolic silver coin. A message from "Comic Strip Blogger" (CSB) mentions an interview with a contact named Gene about AI-generated music.

The hosts read and thank donors for their contributions to the Podcast Index, including a $1,000 donation from Tom Rossi of Buzzsprout. They reiterate that the show operates on a value-for-value model to keep the machines running for the entire podcasting ecosystem.

Listener donations arrive via the Lightning Network, including a "Fibonacci booster" of 11,235 sats. The hosts discuss Dutch culinary traditions involving "virgin herring" (Hollandse Nieuwe) cured in salt and eaten with onions. Several listeners share their podcasting history, moving from legacy hosts like Libsyn to modern V4V platforms like Fountain and Beamly.

The discussion explores whether podcast users actually care about being tracked for advertising purposes, concluding that most are already monetized across other platforms. Sam Sethi joins the conversation via the live chat, indicating he would accept money in exchange for providing first-party data from his app. The hosts suggest a "reverse SATs" model where listeners could even be paid a small amount to hear ads.