Fountain Podcasts, a Lightning-enabled podcast app designed to facilitate value transactions, has introduced the 0.6.0 update with many features aimed at capturing new values for value users.
In a blog post, Fountain highlighted the new ability to fund Fountain accounts through a partnership with MoonPay. Through this partnership, users can now use their debit or credit cards to buy satoshis that arrive in their app wallets instantly.
The update also brings an activity page, a feed that shows popular episodes and clips. The release explains how, “This is just the first of many new social discovery features we’ll be adding to Fountain that uses money as a signal for value.”
In addition to this larger update, several UI changes were made, including a new content card design, the ability to reply to clips, clips and comments displayed on the episode page in Activity and more.
Through the Fountain app, podcasters can receive sats for the content they provide, while listeners can receive sats for liking comments or clips. Streaming your favorite podcasters on a minute-by-minute basis provides a direct link between consumers and content creators, and is a way to empower those creators using Lightning.
By facilitating this value model, podcasters can avoid external sources of funding. In many industries, but especially in the Bitcoin industry, these external sources can introduce a conflict of interest that can be dangerous for consumers who trust their favorite podcasters. With software like Fountain, these consumers can directly support the podcaster and reduce the potential of the event.