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140 - Nick Malster: Liberating Creators from the Attention Economy
By Timothy Allen
Aired Jul 25, 2025 · 1h 28m · Last boosted Aug 7, 2025
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Bitcoin, Gary's Economics, Value-for-Value, Micropayments, Fountain, Content Creation, Monetization, Nostr, Attention Economy, Advertising, Community, Ownership. Timothy Allen speaks with Nick Malster. Nick is the co-founder of Fountain, a value-for-value podcasting app that enables Bitcoin micropayments. In this conversation we discuss the changing nature of work, critique popular economic views, and trace Nick’s journey from advertising to launching Fountain. The discussion focuses on how the attention economy distorts content creation and how Fountain aims to realign incentives by letting listeners directly reward creators. We examine the challenges of moving away from traditional advertising, th...
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Thank you very much, both for bringing on Nick and for making me think about media in a fresh way. I have been listening to my podcasts on Fountain only for a while. I moved away from 🍎 completely. Listening to you and Nick and you I now know why. On paying for good content, yes, I have a subscription, also. They provide a private RSS feed. It has some exclusive content, and then put out the regular episodes without the add. Between supporting what they do, and not having to listen it is worth every “penny” I send them annually. Thank you again, you made me think and spend a lovely evening!
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Thanks for having me on, Tim. I enjoyed our conversation and I’m excited to see the podcast grow on Fountain in the coming months.