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> You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that No I'm not. I already support content
by imron 9y ago
> You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that
No I'm not. I already support content creators who create things that are valuable and that I enjoy. Unfortunately, current payment methods mean that this value has to cross a relatively high threshold before payment is feasible and so creators are often left with nothing.
And yes, $1 is a high threshold - especially for something like a blog post. There aren't many articles on the web that I'd pay $1 to read. There are however many articles on the web I'd pay $0.02 to read - but that option isn't available.
I'm not going to manually spend my time sending sites a dollar here and a dollar there. If however my browser can automate micropayments based on site usage and I can opt in for how much I'm prepared to pay per month in total, then that is something I'd pay for.
> It would require everyone to have the same browser.
No it wouldn't, it would just require all browsers to standardize on a given system. There is no technical reason other browsers couldn't implement automated payments using the Basic Attention Token (or something similar).