Really I think micropayments are a fool's errand because it is inherently too "fraudable" not in the legal sense but that both sides can easily be left unhappy

Really I think micropayments are a fool's errand because it is inherently too "fraudable" not in the legal sense but that both sides can easily be left unhappy with no recourse in a many to many relationship. No gates and it is just another donate button. Add a gate and clickbait and bait and switch becomes ten times worse. A reputation system would be dystopian and doomed to failure. Personal subscriptions for websites might work for those who are big enough but "big enough" is far larger than entities which probably should have been trustbusted several decades ago and it is still too fragmented for that purpose. Not helping is that they are always too greedy in price expected from ad viewer vs subscriptions - because of how few bother.