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Patron kinda proves the point that no-one wants micropayments (and that small/threshold payments work fine in a centralized system)?

• noxer 6y ago
  No it does not. It proves the point that people are willing to pay for content. But no one wants to be locked-in to patron. There is a high chance over the next years many patron competitors will emerge and its neither in the interest of creators nor the consumers to have to pick one an lose out on the others or to use all in parallel. These walled-garden solutions suck. It either fragments people or someone has a monopoly and screws people over. Standardized web monetization with micropayments has obvious benefits, its like email you dont care what provider the other people use its just works.
  • arcticbull 6y ago
    That coil.com exists only proves one thing: they found a neat token idea to shill. We're in full-on speculative mania phase. Anything with blockchain stapled to it immediately garners a high "market cap" and a lot of attention. We're back in the new Long Blockchain Inc phase.