Earn bitcoin for music.
To learn more about my case study with Longy click here
Why Bitcoin for Music?
We call them boosts, but what is a Boost?
The Bigger Picture: RSS + Nostr
Platforms vs Protocols
- Protocol (e.g. RSS, Bitcoin, Nostr): An open standard anyone can use to publish and share music. No gatekeepers, artists own their content and connect directly with listeners.
- Platform (e.g. Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud): A company-controlled service that hosts music. Artists depend on its rules, algorithms, and revenue splits to reach audiences.
Artists Need to Know
The Shift We Need
Wavlake is a platform..
If you want to be sovereign and discovered by everyone.
- 78% to the artist
- 20% to New Music Nudge Unit
- 2% to musicsideproject.com
It’s about Live Music too
At NMNU We do gigs too –
In May 2025 – We produced the first ever bitcoin powered gig in the UK. Which was a brilliant success. Called “Into the Valueverse” we brought together three acts Joe Martin, Nathan Abbott and Longy. And we put on a ground breaking show, live streamed it across the planet and people were able to send support via bitcoin direct to the show. One supporter from the USA sent a 67k sat boost (approx $75) on the night of the show. Boo-bury you are a legend and I still tell people about this.
We also released the live show onto RSS & published a live album which is still making the artists money today
Check out how it works here by viewing the fountain page of our last show!
(Full video below)
https://youtu.be/9vwoPUoD21c
Experience the New Music Economy being built on top of Bitcoin
To experience the music within this new bitcoin powered music economy go to one of the new podcast apps like podverse.fm or fountain.fm and check out the music tab or music shows like this one from Upbeats.
The Growth of the Podcast Index
To be able to monetise your engagement with your network. Is not a new concept. However, earning the hardest money ever discovered from your passion no matter where you are on Earth or even Mars, is.
“Unfortunately no-one outside our little bubble knows about any of this stuff. This decentralised universe is emerging before our very eyes. And unless we persist in sharing it with others IN REAL LIFE, it’ll be futile.”
What’s in it for me?
Spotify in comparison pays artists between $0.003 – $0.005 per stream on average.
That works out as an approx revenue split of 70/30 – so that’s 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify. And this revenue goes down 40% every two years because of new material being added to the platform.
Wavlake gives you 90% – But you have to do it all yourself.
New Music Nudge Unit gives you 80% and does it all for you plus promotion on X, YouTube and Nostr. Content creation for new songs such as:
Artist Case Study
Can I get Longy to embrace a Bitcoin standard?
I’d arranged to meet up at the duck pond. Longy rocked up 30 minutes late. (this was the 3rd time I had arranged to meet him) So, whatever. It wasn’t raining. I could enjoy my time watching the newborn cygnets get used to their new home.
After the opening pleasantries, it was time to elevate the chat to the hard talk of Bitcoin, satoshis and time preference.
Bitcoin is hard to get your head around and I’m always conscious about how to communicate its numerous elements. Bitcoin’s entire ruleset has complete opposite values than what normies in FIAT world are used to.
Whenever discussing bitcoin I find it’s best to leave a lot of the groundbreaking concepts out for a later date. As according to the famous book by Robert Greene One of his 48 laws of power states “too much innovation at once is traumatic.”
So I usually start with the biggest concept and then let the conversation generate itself from there. “Bitcoin is the worlds first incorruptible money” oh and it’s finite.
“What do you know about Bitcoin?”
Longy mentioned he had heard about Ethereum, I cut him off and began to speak. (If he knows about shitcoins he knows enough.)
It gave me the runway to emphasize why Bitcoin is not Crypto. And this point always helps hammer home the concept of scarcity.
Cue my script about money, inflation, currency manipulation, banksters and Fiat gatekeepers. In one month Longy received over 135,000 satoshis in boosts (approximately £115 in 2025) for more on Longy’s journey click here
Earnings in perspective –
Let’s Look at Joe Martin music
He has fully embraced this way of monetisation. His earnings from his top 10 above is 500k satoshis in a couple of months. Joe has shared on podcasts that his earnings from bitcoin have multiplied his Spotify earnings by TWENTY times
Whereas on twitter all you hear is musicians complaining about spotify and the menial revenue they share with the artists on their platform.
In 2020 you could get 500k sats for £15
Today (2025) 500k satoshis is almost £500.
It’s going up forever.
Aaron of Essex
Short term, this may not enable him to quit his day job, But over a long enough time frame this is his pension and as as the space continues to evolve, this will be the best way to do things.
Bearing in mind that I have not told Longy about publishing his music directly to RSS.
I’m conscious of saying too much, as this is next-level stuff.
So I’ll leave this blog with some final words from the podfather himself Adam Curry as he explains exactly what this means to not only the music industry but individuals themselves.
Adam Curry & Dave Jones
Here is an mp3 of Dave Jones & Adam Curry discussing how bitcoin / lightning and these new innovations disrupt the anti-quated vampirific music industry.
If you know of anyone that would like to be shown how to earn real money from their passion. Send them our way.
Aaron x
