An Uber driver just told me he often sees Uber keep ~40–45% of the fare.

What’s interesting is Uber itself says there is no fixed percentage — their formula is:

customer price – driver earnings – third-party fees – operational costs = Uber’s service fee. Uber also says that “at the end of the week, Uber never makes more than you do.” (Uber)

But in practice, many drivers report keeping only 50–60% of what riders pay, and some report Uber’s cut reaching 45% or more on certain rides, depending on trip length, surge pricing, airport fees, insurance, and local market conditions. (Reddit)

That’s why a Nostr + Bitcoin peer-to-peer rideshare model feels like one of the clearest real-world use cases for this ecosystem:

• rider pays less
• driver keeps more
• instant settlement
• no giant intermediary extracting the spread
• reputation + trust could live on Nostr

This seems like an an obvious perfect use case for mass adoption of Bitcoin / nostr.

Am I missing something?

Is anyone seriously building this yet? 🟠🚕⚡

Never coded before but this makes me want to learn to build on nostr.

#asknostr