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Not to be pedantic, but you wrote "cutting out the middleman." Doesn't patreon take a small cut? Aren't they a middleman? (Though undoubtedly one taking a much
by johnloeber 11y ago
Not to be pedantic, but you wrote "cutting out the middleman." Doesn't patreon take a small cut? Aren't they a middleman? (Though undoubtedly one taking a much smaller share than previous ones.)
- jonknee 11y agoVisa would also be a middleman. Or even the post office if you only accepted mailed cash.
- adrusi 11y agoThere's also gratipay, which doesn't take a cut. Still the credit card's cut, but gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman (unless you count miners as middlemen) when the financee cashes out using bitcoin. If they implemented it wrong, then coinbase is the middleman.
- some1else 11y agoNobody even noticed the middle-ma'am though.
- afreak 11y ago> gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman [...] when the financee cashes out using bitcoin And tell me, how does one cut out the middleman when they convert their Bitcoin earnings to US dollars or whatever currency they prefer?
- lawpoop 11y agoJesus Christ why don't you people just start mowing the guy's lawn for Christ's sake
- throweway 11y agoThat can be taken more than one way
- chris_wot 11y agoThe second way wouldn't be done for Christ's sake...
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- bowmessage 11y agowell then wouldn't the blades be the middleman
- adrusi 11y agoA few people will donate bitcoin. A few things can be bought directly with bitcoin. On average, you'd expect that the fraction of your income paid in bitcoin would be similar to the fraction of goods and services that you can pay for with bitcoin.
- afreak 11y ago> A few people will donate bitcoin. A few things can be bought directly with bitcoin. On average, you'd expect that the fraction of your income paid in bitcoin would be similar to the fraction of goods and services that you can pay for with bitcoin. The point of donating money to the author of the piece is to encourage them to continue writing this epic story. Giving them Bitcoin is akin to leaving a tip to your server where the tip appears to be currency but rather instead is a Chick tract with the suggestion that you'll pray for their soul.
- VMG 11y agoThe difference being that others accept these "chick tracts" in exchange for goods and services. I'm not in the mood to register with some service and hand out my CC data to give the author a buck. In contrast I'd scan a QR code in a heartbeat.
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- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoPayments-wise, yes. Patreon does remove the middleman of your publisher, though, in terms of how your audience connects with you.
- coldtea 11y agoWhich is usually called another term, the "gatekeeper".
- hinkley 11y agoAh, arguing with nerds. :) (maybe 'cutting out a middleman' is pedantically accurate in this case. We seem to have identified at least two middlemen in this process)
- anigbrowl 11y agoI suppose Patreon is technically in the middle but since their cut is small and transparent it's not like a 'man in the middle' attack where the intermediary is secretive about how much they're collecting and so on.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382629 and marked it off-topic.