4 ms·
> Imagine if your upvote button was wired directly into your wallet and extracted some amount of money with every press. Every press? Nobody has ever proposed
by markdown 3y ago
> Imagine if your upvote button was wired directly into your wallet and extracted some amount of money with every press.
Every press? Nobody has ever proposed that. All I want is a button in my browser (not on websites) that I can configure ahead of time. Perhaps I'd set it to $0.10. Then, when (and only when) I want, I can click on that button, knowing it will attempt to send $0.10 to the website I'm currently viewing, if that website has set up the ability to receive money in this way.
Maybe I won't click it for a week, but then click it ten times on one article (or website) to send a dollar to that site.
- bluefirebrand 3y ago> Every press? Nobody has ever proposed that I was just using it as an example to illustrate why a micropayment button press is a different and more difficult decision than an upvote, because you asked why those decisions were different. If you would not use them interchangeably, then of course they are different.