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Bitcoin / Lightning / browser integration / one click article buy may solve the problem in the future.

madeofpalk 8y ago
HOW? How would it actually solve it in a way that previous attempts at pay-per-read microtransactions haven’t? What the fuck does Bitcoin have to do with it? Keep in mind that the majority of browsers (Safari and Chrome) have built in payment mechanisms already.
- mathgeek 8y ago
  > What does Bitcoin have to do with it? Previous poster was using it as an example of a medium for exchange used with micropayments.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    Bitcoin is probably the worst example of micropayments, though. Also, bitcoin has been completely incapable of doing micropayments for a long time.
    - mateuszf 8y ago
      That's why I have mentioned the combination of Bitcoin / Lightning, not only Bitcoin. Lightning seems very suited for micropayments.
- wpietri 8y ago
  I've come to realize that there are two things called "Bitcoin". One is the actual technical system that exists. That's the thing that (slowly) does 2-4 transactions per second, and is mostly driven by speculation and some light crime. Approximately nobody uses it for actual commerce. Then there is "Bitcoin" the idea. You can see the start of it in the initial paper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." [1] This is the techno-libertarian ideal of a perfect, stateless financial system that magically solves all financial problems So Bitcoin-the-idea has everything to do with any money-related problem. Even though Bitcoin-the-reality is in fact not helpful for this. As the idea and the real thing diverge, it becomes more obvious that a large number of Bitcoin-the-idea adherents are essentially religious in their behaviors. (There's another, much smaller segment for whom the idea is something they are working toward. You can tell them because they will distinguish between present and (imagined) future.) Unfortunately, the Church of Bitcoin attendees welcome questions like your about as much as parents welcome people saying that Santa doesn't exist. So thanks for speaking up and asking blunt questions like this despite the flack I'm sure you get. [1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

HOW? How would it actually solve it in a way that previous attempts at pay-per-read microtransactions haven’t? What the fuck does Bitcoin have to do with it? Keep in mind that the majority of browsers (Safari and Chrome) have built in payment mechanisms already.

mathgeek 8y ago
> What does Bitcoin have to do with it? Previous poster was using it as an example of a medium for exchange used with micropayments.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  Bitcoin is probably the worst example of micropayments, though. Also, bitcoin has been completely incapable of doing micropayments for a long time.
  - mateuszf 8y ago
    That's why I have mentioned the combination of Bitcoin / Lightning, not only Bitcoin. Lightning seems very suited for micropayments.
wpietri 8y ago
I've come to realize that there are two things called "Bitcoin". One is the actual technical system that exists. That's the thing that (slowly) does 2-4 transactions per second, and is mostly driven by speculation and some light crime. Approximately nobody uses it for actual commerce. Then there is "Bitcoin" the idea. You can see the start of it in the initial paper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." [1] This is the techno-libertarian ideal of a perfect, stateless financial system that magically solves all financial problems So Bitcoin-the-idea has everything to do with any money-related problem. Even though Bitcoin-the-reality is in fact not helpful for this. As the idea and the real thing diverge, it becomes more obvious that a large number of Bitcoin-the-idea adherents are essentially religious in their behaviors. (There's another, much smaller segment for whom the idea is something they are working toward. You can tell them because they will distinguish between present and (imagined) future.) Unfortunately, the Church of Bitcoin attendees welcome questions like your about as much as parents welcome people saying that Santa doesn't exist. So thanks for speaking up and asking blunt questions like this despite the flack I'm sure you get. [1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf