Tipping: The Creator Economy and the Rise of Direct Value Transfer
Buckazoid and the Future of Creator Sovereignty
I just published a piece on Substack called "Tipping: The Creator Economy and the Rise of Direct Value Transfer". It's about how the internet is quietly shifting away from platform-controlled monetization toward something simpler and more human — direct tipping. No subscriptions, no algorithms, no gatekeepers. Just presence, appreciation, and value exchanged directly between people.
In the piece, I talk about why tipping matters — not just as a payment method, but as a cultural gesture — and how tools like Buckazoid ($bz) can help reclaim that kind of direct support in a noisy, centralized world. It's not just about funding creators — it's about rebuilding the internet from the edges, one intentional transaction at a time.
https://buckazoid.substack.com/p/tipping-the-creator-economy-and-the (https://buckazoid.substack.com/p/tipping-the-creator-economy-and-the)
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To illustrate how this can be done and easily replicated, if you would like to support my Buckazoid (bz) Community work, Forum Moderation, Substack and Investigative Journalism:
I am now accepting Tips exclusively in Buckazoid ($bz) @
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👏 👏 Tipping and accepting $bz is great! To help out with this effort I took the image you shared with the BZ Telegram Group and added a generator to my platform so anyone can easily insert their Solana Address and have a custom $bz QR graphic generated that can be saved or inserted around the internet!
Check out my signature for example 😎
Code below to use in your own signature here, or the url to use to generate yours! You can also specify a "height" and the image will scale appropriately
[img alt="Send me $bz SMRTAeXrGbhCBKJamysyw7C2mhhD3wHNfoSU3rsMbYQ" title="SMRTAeXrGbhCBKJamysyw7C2mhhD3wHNfoSU3rsMbYQ"]https://www.smartd.app/api/og/buckazoid?address=SMRTAeXrGbhCBKJamysyw7C2mhhD3wHNfoSU3rsMbYQ&height=324[/img]
https://www.smartd.app/api/og/buckazoid?address=YOUR_SOLANA_ADDRESS&height=CUSTOM_HEIGHT