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Not to be that “just add blockchain” guy, but this would be a great usecase for permissionless cryptocurrency micropayments, e.x. Lightning Network. Create an o
by tlrobinson 8y ago
Not to be that “just add blockchain” guy, but this would be a great usecase for permissionless cryptocurrency micropayments, e.x. Lightning Network. Create an open protocol, build it into browsers, let content sites ask you to pay $0.01 (or whatever) to view an article. Maybe you could set your browser to automatically pay for the first N articles or M dollars per site per day. Or maybe a site could offer an unlimited subscription option through the same system.
- brockwhittaker 8y agoBlockchain isn’t necessary. You can have a debit account system and change cents per article without the high friction cost of making people buy some cryptocurrency.
- tlrobinson 8y agoOf course, but then it's not open, decentralized, and permissionless like the web is. In that respect there's always been an impedance mismatch between the web itself and the payment systems you could use on the web. Cryptocurrency has the potential to change that, which I find interesting.