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Re:Making a case for JavaScript, in-browser Mining by Santosh83 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:23AM (#16384702)
No I meant straight up paying for services through money, not selling yourself as a product. The former is better than letting ads hound you, and in my mind, better than being forced to rent out your system's hardware in exchange.

I would honestly prefer more services and content creators asking for reasonable payments and more integration of multiple, seamless, international payment options into sites and services. Currently a major reason I don't pay for some services I otherwise would is because the payment process is very clunky or downright broken.

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Re:Making a case for JavaScript, in-browser Mining by philipodonnell on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:33AM (#16384806)
> No I meant straight up paying for services through money, not selling yourself as a product.

Ah, gotcha. TBF, most of the discussion around this is about replacing ad-funded models with browser-based mining, not replacing direct payments.

> I don't pay for some services I otherwise would is because the payment process is very clunky or downright broken.

This is a great reason to look harder at in-browser mining.

Electrical utilities have far lower payment processing costs than SAAS payment providers like Stripe. They also provide a way of aggregating many microtransactions in a way that credit-card networks actively try to prevent.

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