Micropayments from readers to authors were a crucial part of Ted Nelson’s original design for hypertext. The web is broken for lack of that.
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Replying to @Meaningness
No existing payment infrastructure, including Bitcoin, can handle the volume of transactions needed to make web micropayments work.
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A technical solution to the reader-to-author micropayments problem will utterly change the economics, and therefore experience, of the web.
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Wondering whether I’m a net creator or consumer of the web! Let’s do some math…pic.twitter.com/ZO2PELgU3I
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@Meaningness Shitposters are almost certainly net creators as well.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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@othercriteria On a per-hour basis, yes. One of the problems to be solved is a mechanism for differential payment based on quality.
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