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How else would you suggest they maintain the infrastructure without turning the users back into the product?
by mst 10y ago
How else would you suggest they maintain the infrastructure without turning the users back into the product?
- mike-cardwell 10y agoBy taking a lot less than 5% of the donations and creating a successful and widely used product.
- mst 10y agoOne would hope that if they get sufficiently successfuly they'd drop the percentage, but requiring them to achieve wider scale just to initially break even doesn't seem like it sets up good incentives to me.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoWhat infrastructure is there to maintain? Conceptually all that needs to happen is: * Website sends HTTP response header containing a bitcoin address * Browser keeps a bitcoin wallet * Browser shows a button to send bitcoin from said wallet to said bitcoin address And that's it.
- mike-cardwell 10y agoYes, that is ideally how it would work. Yes, they have infrastructure which needs paying for, but that infrastructure only exists in the first place so that they can take a cut of the donations.
- nailer 10y agoImplementing window.payment like Google and Apple do?
- ultramancool 10y agoIf the system was designed right any infrastructure could be distributed (put a bitcoin address and a notification URL in your HTML or something dead simple like that) and development could be sponsored by interested parties if needed. There wouldn't be any need for a fee.
- hackuser 10y ago> If the system was designed right any infrastructure could be distributed (put a bitcoin address and a notification URL in your HTML or something dead simple like that) and development could be sponsored by interested parties if needed. There wouldn't be any need for a fee. You need a fee because otherwise nobody will do (or is doing) the work to implement it.
- ultramancool 10y agoAs I said, certainly there are many websites which stand to profit from this who could contribute. Of course, with something this small and basically one-off, given the number of open source devs building bitcoin projects I'd be surprised if no one's done something similar already.
- angry-hacker 10y agoCharge for the product? A popular line from people who hate ads ;)