[bromquinn]

It seems like you could use this to upload a piece of media to an S3 bucket, create a link using MintGate, and boom - now you have paywalled content. This is incredibly ergonomic compared to existing monetization schemes.

This also separates the hosting of the content from the payment system for the content. Example: If you're a podcast creator on patreon, patreon can ban you, and you just have to hope that your fans will follow you to your new platform. With MintGate's solution, it seems like you could change your content hosting at any time without impacting your token holders. This makes creator's relationship with their fans more resilient to censorship, and reduces the creator's reliance on any single platform.

Holding a creator's personal token v.s. paying them a monthly subscription on patreon is an interesting proposition. It changes the relationship between fan and creator from 'customer' to 'investor' and gives token-holding fans a monetary incentive to promote the creator.

I think we're still in the early days of seeing how indie creators can make money on the internet, and projects like this are leading the charge towards new monetization schemes - very cool!