About Podfundo

If you are thinking about creating a podcast at PodFundo you should read this page first to get an understanding of what this service offers you.

Hosting Podcasts

At the core, PodFundo is a podcast-hosting service. Just like thousand other services out there this means you can:

• Create a podcast
• Upload audio and create episodes
• Deliver your podcast with an RSS feed to any podcasting app or podcasting index (Apple, Spotify, etc.)

Your audience subscribes to your podcast feed and will receive your episodes for listening on their devices. PodFundo takes care of hosting your audio files and delivering your podcast.

Funding episodes with Monero

The unique part of PodFundo is that monetization is built in from the start.

With every episode you can set a funding goal in Monero. The episode will be added to your feed without the audio and instead have the funding goal displayed to your audience. Your audience will then "crowd-fund" your episode by sending Monero XMR to the address of the episode. Once the funding goal is reached, the full episode is published to the RSS feed and available to everyone.

What's the benefit?

Advertisements suck. Unfortunately, ads are the dominant funding model for podcasts. Just when you really got into a podcast episode, it suddenly is interrupted by an ad break - killing the vibe.

However, podcast creators don't just produce content out of the goodness of their heart. They have to put food on the table too.

PodFundo solves this dilemma with a value-for-value model. It allows the creators to keep their podcasts free of advertisement pollution and still earn sound money from their content.

Creators have to collect their audience and built their reputation. Their already unlocked catalog is free for all, which means that there is no barrier to entry for new listeners. Depending on the audience size they can demand higher and higher funding goals.

Why Monero XMR?

Monero is digital cash. Podcasts are digital. It's a perfect match!

The audience can remain anonymous, while the creator does not have to worry about the origins of the funds they receive.

Transaction costs are cheap on the Monero network.

PodFundo aims to enlarge the circular economy of the Monero ecosystem to allow yet another way to earn Monero by creating value.

Are my funds safu?

PodFundo only takes the private view key and primary address of your wallet. These two inputs are needed to create a view-only wallet in Monero. This means that PodFundo can see all incoming transfers to the wallet and generate new addresses, but cannot spend any funds from your wallet. In other words, at no point in time are your funds under control of PodFundo. If your keep your seed phrase secret, only you can spend your Monero.