If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately.

If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately. There was a service like this maybe 10 years ago. You subscribed to the service and then you could pay something like 3¢ or 5¢ to read different articles. The problem was that it didn't carry the entire newspaper, only "featured" articles. And it only had maybe a dozen periodicals in its collection. Great idea. Poorly executed