Eg, imagine a megacontent provider like NYT takes down paywall and mines in exchange for article views.
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Now media is less dependent on advertisers. And now there’s a new power player in the mining community.
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“Click-bait” now becomes a bit less cloudy, as it’s a slightly more direct pay-for-content relationship.
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Readers pay relative to their computing power cost, and electricity cost varies widely across geographies.
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But high-volume wealthy readers don’t even notice, they’re charging their phones/laptops no matter what. Which offsets the cost for others.
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But that last bit assumes reasonable media companies (LOL) who don’t just shut the door on lower-computationally-valuable readers.
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Electricity == money in this scenario, so really we might just see the same situation as today for big media.
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But for smaller producers, the microtransaction barrier is gone. They pay their cycles up into their miner co-op (aka *union*).
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The miner co-op handles all the backend bits of cycle-processing and blockchain management.
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Works like your analytics provider does: <script src=“https://indy-writers-union.org/do-some-mining.js …”></script>
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