Fountain Podcasts, a Lightning-enabled podcast app designed to facilitate value-for-value transactions, has released its 0.6.0 update with many features geared toward capturing new users value-for-value.
in a blog post, Fountain highlighted the new ability to fund your Fountain account through a partnership with MoonPay. Through this partnership, users can now use a debit card or credit card to buy satoshis which arrive in the app’s wallet shortly after.
The update also brings the arrival of the activity page, a feed that shows popular episodes and clips. The release describes how, “This is just the first of many new social discovery features we’ll be adding to Fountain that use money as a token of value.”
In addition to these larger updates, several UI changes have been implemented, including a new content card layout, the ability to reply to clips, clips and comments displayed on episode pages in Activity, and more.
Through the Fountain app, podcasters can receive sats for the content they provide, while listeners can receive sats for likes on their comments or clips. Streaming your favorite podcaster’s sats on a minute-by-minute basis provides a direct link between the consumer and the content creator, and is a way to empower these creators using Lightning.
By facilitating this value-for-value model, podcasters can avoid external sources of funding. In many industries, but especially the Bitcoin industry, these outside sources can create conflicts of interest that can even prove detrimental to consumers who trust their favorite podcasters. With software like Fountain, these consumers can directly support these podcasters and reduce the potential for such events.
