Sunday Brunch 9: Budtender (Hash Power Music)
From Plebchain Radio by Avi Burra and QW
March 8, 2026 · 1h 54m
About this episode
The episode features Budtender as a guest-DJ discussing his journey in music onboarding and the mission of Hash Power Music.
Sunday Brunch #9 is a classic “coffee + record player” decompression session with Budtender (Hash Power Music) as guest-DJ, running on the house rule: 90% of sats streamed during songs goes straight to the artist, and boosts during conversation keep the table stocked. Budtender shares how a chain of Nostr serendipities pulled him from a “silent Bitcoiner” life into hands-on music onboarding. He revisits Nostrville 2023 as a hinge moment, including the funny full-circle detail that a Plebchain Radio shirt photo ended up embedded in an album context, tying his early V4V journey to the first song Avi ever played on the show (“Closer to Somewhere” by The Retrograde). The conversation then zooms out into Budtender’s broader mission: Hash Power Music as an “end game” vision for the music world, built to merge what worked in legacy labels with artist sovereignty and V4V rails, avoiding the predatory incentive drift that corrodes centralized platforms. Playlist-wise, they spin and react to a set of tracks chosen to match the Brunch arc, including The Velvics’ “Favorite Child” (a stadium-sized, Pink Floyd-adjacent slow burn), Abel James’ “Live While I’m Alive” (a buoyant “do the thing…
People in this episode
Hosts: Avi Burra, QW
Guest: Budtender
Topics covered
- music onboarding
- artist sovereignty
- V4V rails
- legacy labels
- Nostr
- live music
- podcast
Keywords
- Budtender
- Hash Power Music
- Nostr
- V4V
- music industry
- podcast
- Sunday Brunch
- Avi Burra
- QW
- live music
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Hash Power Music, South by Worldwide, The Retrograde, The Velvics, Abel James, The Trusted, Mooky, Survival Guide
Books & works: Closer to Somewhere, Favorite Child, Live While I'm Alive, Spin, Shotgun, Blood Perfume
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