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>*Until there is a universal web currency that is low friction to send like some of the crypto currencies. I see this idea pop up every day now. It blows my m

>*Until there is a universal web currency that is low friction to send like some of the crypto currencies. I see this idea pop up every day now. It blows my mind that we don't have it yet. It seems so obvious, why hasn't someone written it yet? Can someone just pick a cryptocurrency that doesn't have high transaction fees and make a few browser plugins? Add your payment address to ./well-known or something?

S_A_P 8y ago
I see that coinbase seems to be pushing the 0x/ETH as the solution, and maybe I just don't understand how the 2 are supposed to work, but it seems clunky to me. By that I mean I can't abstract the concept easily based on things I have read...
AgentME 8y ago
The Brave Browser (https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/) is attempting something like this. (I expect compatible plugins for other browsers could be made in the future if its system takes off.) There are complications that make this not super straight-forward to pull off. Low fees in cryptocurrency currently is usually done by having low activity. (There are several projects attempting to solve this in a decentralized way, including the Bitcoin Lightning Network and various Ethereum projects.) Then there's privacy issues.