Okay. Red teaming this.

Why would I launch a creator coin?

Isn't speculation likely to destroy good will on Farcaster etc or attract an audience that don't actually care about my work?

What's the end game here, and how does this end well for me / my readers and audience?

Curious to hear...

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Skeptical optimist, EA aligned, building internet businesses.

Farcaster OG.

https://linktr.ee/joanwestenberg

No good reason imo - the whole moxie thing turned me off from them completely

What I really want is just an easy way to sell crypto based subscriptions to my newsletter / blog without having to set up a whole new Paragraph to replace Beehiiv. Hypersub is awesome but there’s no way to guarantee email capture and without that I can’t add people to the list / community etc. 

But that’s literally all I want in terms of crypto based content monetization.

Someday Zora will yet again change their model and force it onto their existing user base as they’ve done two or three times already. Creator coins are imo an attempt to kludge “tokenization of everything” into the creative industry when there’s already plenty of ways to directly support creatives already - like subscribing or paying them for their work.

Yeah. I’m playing with Zora right now but I can’t shake the bad bad feeling that this would end in a bad bad way. Either reputationally or emotionally.