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Re:Why ads are a problem by manigandham on Monday December 21, 2015 @01:01PM (#10772354)
Yea I mentioned this is my first post as time-based subscriptions would be perhaps the ideal instead of micropayments. The amounts you quoted are pretty fair.

The most scalable payments option is typical credit cards or bank transfers, which obviously come with identity information. Perhaps there can be an option for bitcoin but it's definitely not ready today. No company would deal with that at scale.

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Re:Why ads are a problem by mirimir on Monday December 21, 2015 @01:25PM (#10772490)
Why not gift cards? Gyft and eGifter both accept Bitcoin. And numerous businesses accept gift cards, including Apple and Amazon, and many chains.
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Re:Why ads are a problem by manigandham on Monday December 21, 2015 @02:39PM (#10772943)
Sure, you're right, we can reframe this and just say you're buying prepaid credit cards using cash/bitcoin. That could take care of the payment info anonymity. Not sure of scalability for mainstream but it could work.

The remaining issues of scale/tech remain though which is still a big problem.

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