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I'm not a crypto maximalist or even optimist, but it'd be interesting to see a version of this with smart contracts - when you rehost content and collect paymen

I'm not a crypto maximalist or even optimist, but it'd be interesting to see a version of this with smart contracts - when you rehost content and collect payments, a percent goes back to whoever you rehosted from, and on from there; when you cite a work and collect payments, a percent goes back to whoever you cited, and so on from there to whoever they cited. There's a long way to go to get there, and there's no enforcement against, well, let's call it the NFT jpeg problem, but it's at least an interesting structure that I think would improve the economic incentives of the internet.

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
If you had that structure in place for payments, you could use it for other stuff. Imagine confirming an experimental result and adding a "replicated" annotation to the original such that all upstream citations that trust you can now have more confidence in the original result. Or imagine doing the opposite with misinformation. I dream of a world where being trustworthy is the most profitable thing. How strange would that be?