Remember these are not just ads these are podcasters promoting their shows in a way that’s upfront about the time and attention tradeoff. This model also gives us the ability to onboard new people to bitcoin and the value for value ethos. Since this update we’ve had thousands of new users boosting for the first time - many of which have earned their first ever bitcoin. If you want to remove the promotions you can subscribe to premium - which only a tiny % of users do btw - less than 2%.

Agreed. He even said he doesn’t want his listeners sending him money.

I hear ya, I even boosted 5 million sats a few weeks ago my trying to warning the masses of nefarious companies advertising to this space. BUT Oscar and his team at Fountain have a done an amazing job at listening to the community on this topic. Much like RHR has ads from Bitcoin Focused, non-scammy companies, Fountain I believe will follow Marty and Matt's example of how to do ads ethically. Nobody's perfect but Fountain is one of the good guys here.

can you briefly tell us what Pomp said or at least which episode? Thanks

@ODELL how much would you guys need to go ad free on RHR?