My impression is that micropayments were a later evolution of his thinking. When I met Cox in the mid-90s, his talk focused on micropayments as a newer concept.

My impression is that micropayments were a later evolution of his thinking. When I met Cox in the mid-90s, his talk focused on micropayments as a newer concept. Stepstone started out by selling bundles of "Software ICs", after all, for a price that was rather "macropayments".