> So what? Your micropayments platform makes it easy to create an account with a website, put $5 into their payment bucket... That's it right there. That's the

> So what? Your micropayments platform makes it easy to create an account with a website, put $5 into their payment bucket... That's it right there. That's the "what". :) Paying 0.01 cents to someone is quite different from paying $5 to that same someone that gets delivered in tiny portions over some span of time. In the first case, you're out a tiny fraction of a cent. In the second case, you're out $5. Because (AIUI) the money movement system makes it prohibitively expensive to move fractions of cents around, micropayments don't happen.