"Adam Curry is the modern-day Prometheus. His discovery of podcasting and sharing it with the world was as significant of a development as when Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to humans. Podcasting has quickly evolved into one of the most popular ways to communicate valuable information, completely disintermediating the CIA-controlled media apparatus. While Bitcoin seeks to separate money and state, podcasting seeks to separate syndicated news organizations and information."
"Giving the world podcasting was not enough for Curry as he is now once again seeking to wrestle control from the gods by allowing individuals to engage in what he coined the "value-for-value economy" by allowing podcasters to receive Lightning payments. The fiat value-for-value economy is massive. There are tools like YouTube super chats, PayPal, Patreon, and more that allow content creators to receive immense amounts of value from their audience without having to rely solely on sponsors."
"The first value-for-value use of bitcoin was when WikiLeaks was kicked off the fiat payment rails. Exposing war criminals is one of the core responsibilities of journalists, yet is an unapproved activity by the parasitic ruling class. One of my mottos is journalism dies in compliance, and building the entire media apparatus on top of systems that rely on permission to operate will completely kill any ability for any real information to be transmitted."
Adam Curry enabled podcasting, which decentralized audio distribution and bypassed centralized, CIA-influenced media. Podcasting rapidly became a mainstream channel for communicating valuable information and separating syndicated news organizations from information sources. Curry promotes a "value-for-value economy" that lets podcasters accept Lightning payments directly from audiences. Fiat platforms like YouTube Super Chats, PayPal, and Patreon already enable significant audience-funded support. Bitcoin-based value-for-value is smaller but strategically important because decentralized payments preserved contested journalism after WikiLeaks lost access to fiat payment rails. Dependence on permissioned systems risks funding control and suppression of investigative reporting.
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