I am sold on V4V and believe Nostr and bitcoin make it possible. But what do you think it will take for more people to be willing to spend sats in amounts meaningful enough to make V4V viable? Is it a matter of doing a better job of asking, as you’ve talked about? Is it a matter of changing more bitcoiners’ paradigm to include spending sats and not only saving them? Is it a matter of needing better bridges between fiat and sats? A larger Nostr user base would also make a difference as it would bring a volume of activity not currently present, but there does seem to be some amount of disconnect that leads people to think that zapping anything more than 5 or 10 sats is unthinkable.  

 V4V goes beyond zaps. Patreon/Substack/etc clearly shows that this can be sustainable for many people and is the better model for most non-shallow content. My argument is that the reason why someone signs up for someone's Patreon is not because they'll have access to potentially paywalled content. Paywalls weren't even a thing in the early days of Substack, proving my point.  

 In your opinion is it feasible (on a practical level) for a creator within the bitcoin and Nostr “space” to take a V4V approach with their content using bitcoin-only, or do fiat payment methods need to be part of their approach? Technologically, sats/zaps/lightning makes it all so much easier, especially when you can start to incorporate automatic lightning splits, but practically, many people just seem more willing to part with dollars and cents than with sats.