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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by Zelizz on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:27PM (#15614443)
Or you could distribute tokens mined from a computer that's plugged in somewhere, or even purchased with normal currency. But I'm not sure I'd want to navigate a web where I'm constantly making purchase decisions with every hyperlink.
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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by akoncius on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:36PM (#15614947)
so why bother with additional steps (and cryptocurrency) instead of just pay with real money from the beginning? you are suggesting to introduce just additional unnecessary steps.
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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:42PM (#15615780)
Some kind of micropayment system would be ok with me, but the nice thing about a system that doesn’t use real money is that it doesn’t factor into my budget in the same way.
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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by chii on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:46PM (#15616097)
how could it not use real money (i.e, it has no monetary value), and yet be an acceptable form of payment?
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