
On The Brink with Castle Island
Jared Nusinoff (Mash) on Remonetizing the Internet with Lightning (EP.285)
Feb 14, 2022
43:03
Mash founder Jared Nusinoff joins the show to explain how internet monetization is broken and how lightning-based payments fixes it. In this episode:
- Jared’s professional history and how he came to work on Bitcoin
- Going from an adventure guide to bitcoin
- Jared’s early entrepreneurial work
- Jared’s early history sharing music prior to torrents
- Why Jared quite Google to found an adventure guide company
- How Jared thinks of Bitcoin’s MoE/SoV debate
- Why internet monetization models are flawed today - and the missing middle
- How the technology of payments online directly affects the quality of internet experiences
- How Lightning uniquely solves the monetization of quality content online
- Jared’s view of Lightning’s maturity and momentum as a payments infrastructure
- How Lightning provides completely novel business models on the internet
- How Mash could change the game for internet ‘miniapps’
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