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That’s fine. As long as you are spending even more time hunting down promising bargains and buying them for yourself.

In addition, a paywall creates barriers to entry (and liquidity) on the marketplace. As a result, it is best used when having sufficient demand and supply (liquidity) does not automatically unlock transactions, i.e. marketplaces with very high transaction complexity. In other words, paywalls need both high complexity and high asymmetry.

As crypto networks evolve, they are likely to provide strong incentives to unlock further state and create open services in many areas dominated by closed ones today. Open services powered by crypto networks will present unprecedented opportunity for a new generation of developers and entrepreneurs to innovate.

Alcohol producers are generally not allowed to sell directly to consumers, but rather must sell to wholesalers or distributors, who then sell to retailers, who then sell to consumers.

I have thought a lot about lending to creators through Substack-like platforms. Why do creators need financing? From a commercial perspective, financing could help creators fund the time required to build a subscription base large enough to replace their income (think pre-seed capital).