Crazy times, eh?

It's been a while, so I figured we'd give an update for anyone who was curious about how the silly satirical news source XRP the Standard Productions is fairing in this Coil endeavor.

I will say this: very cool milestones have been reached since the last time we showed our progress, but overall it's been more of a struggle...

Any other Coil content creators notice less traffic? Smaller 'boosts'? A general decrease in positive attitudes? Well, you're not alone.

Here are my thoughts, and don't for a second think that I'm claiming they're original. I've heard several people express the same sentiments:

Coil in its present form is a testing ground in beta (duh, right?). They want to prove the basic function of a web-monetized platform. There may come a day within the next few years when deals are made with much larger entities/websites and they will begin to incorporate Coil web monetization into very popular platforms, services, or browsers which will already account for your membership fee (for instance, your Netflix or Prime subscription will cover it... no need for an additional Coil membership). Over five or so years, as more people see that it is viable, more sites/platforms will adopt it. Over the next ten or fifteen years, if all goes well, almost every online site will be getting some type of income from some type of web monetization. Coil's market share of that is yet-to-be-determined, but micropayments and web monetization itself just makes far too much sense to not ultimately win out.

But for now, to all of you content creators, keep producing. Write what makes you happy and be thrilled that we are getting to play in the sandbox and prove the concept. The amount that we are making now in streaming XRP payments is sooooo minuscule and irrelevant... it's the IDEA and FUNCTION of it that is important. Probably more important than you realize...

SO, enough blabbing from me. How has XRP_Productions been faring? How much XRP have we made? How many people have visited our articles? Hmmmmm????

First, I must say that I'm tickled pink in this depressing and disastrous time to have surpassed 250 followers on Coil. Means very little in the grand scheme, I'm the first to admit. But it is a nice feeling considering the daily effort of writing comedy that is surprisingly mentally taxing to create.

Okay, you know the drill... if you wanna see the data that I mentioned above, you gotta . Support the XRP ecosystem. It's five bucks a month. I know you can do it. I believe in you. I love you. Too far... sorry.

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