There may be short lived websites that exist only scam a large number of people out of small amounts of money. What makes this worse is that most people would (

There may be short lived websites that exist only scam a large number of people out of small amounts of money. What makes this worse is that most people would (rationally) not consider it worth pursuing the website operator unless recourse were very easy. Is it really worth your time to chase down $0.25 from a scammy website, other than perhaps doing it on principle? Any mircropayment protocol design should take this into account.