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 Just theorising: what rate would be needed to fully depend on zaps only? 
 Let’s make it easy and leave any taxes out of the calculation and take a monthly income of EUR 3.000 as our baseline. 

This means:
- 10.000 donations of 30 cents.
- 1.000 donations of EUR 3
- 100 donations of EUR 30

I think the out of 100 listeners, only 1 to 5 donate (my experience in my own podcast). Let’s take the upper bound of 5 for this example. So for every listener that donates, you have 19 that don’t donate. This means to get to 1.000 donations of EUR 3, you need a total crowd of 20.000 listeners. 

There are not that many bitcoin podcasts that get to that level. And the point is, once you get to that level you can easily get ads for EUR 1.000 per episode (CPM of EUR 50). If you make 4 episodes a week this means you get EUR 4.000 a month. 
 It seems like you did this math before 🤣, I am just starting with fountain and is a great way to start directly valuating content. For me it is part the accustomerzation with free content, the unknowns with zapping and all in all unconsciousness of the possibilities that keep me where I am. Anyway, great podcast you're making! 
 Also I seem to be unable to boost your podcast through fountain. Am I missing something here?