Monetization of publicly accessible written content has never had a strong basis on the internet, since it suffers from the public goods problem. As publishing has moved online, funding for high-quality, long-form writing has broken down.
Things tend to get worse as they scale. As startups turn to large corporations, they empty of meaning. The tight social bonds of a village fail in the big city. What goes wrong?
Tokens are icing on the cake - freelancers can show up and earn 40% more than traditional marketplaces. Braintrust has abstracted away crypto brain damage. Nike is a client and they don't know or need to know they are interacting with a crypto network.
The future of education is not homeschooling, bootcamps, or cohort-based courses
It's proof-of-learning:
- Learning on the job through micro-tasks (applied learning)
- Resume auto builds as you prove learnings digitally
- Earn ownership in networks as you learn
Payments make the whole cycle more powerful while also generating revenue for the company. By integrating with Paystack, they avoid building a payments company for each market they go into and avoid the regulation (and hefty central banking deposits that come with it) to register as a PSP.