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This is smart! Why not build it?
by nwienert 7y ago
This is smart! Why not build it?
- paulddraper 7y agoI suspect the probabilistic aspect would not actually be popular.
- tlb 7y agoYes, I think people would hate it for the same reason they love gambling slot machines. People overweight rare and random events. You'd always remember the one time you got dinged $10 for looking at some lame clickbait article.
- nwienert 7y agoYou wouldn’t need to sell it as random to the end user.
- paulddraper 7y agoThat's a good point.
- kfichter 7y agoI've always wondered whether probabilistic micropayments would fly under sharia-compliant finance.
- jonas21 7y agoYou'd have to have some way to enforce that people actually make the payments. And once you do that, it seems like an intermediary that just aggregates microtransactions and takes care of settlement at the end of the month or whatever would be a lot easier.