Are there ten popular micropayment services? Does it cost anything in time and effort to use them? Who do you trust to tell you which micropayment services are good and trustworthy?

> Are there ten popular micropayment services?

It exists just as much as your government monopoly. We're talking about a world where sites let people pay microtransactions, not the current state of the real world. I'm just pointing out that it is definitely not necessary to have government control to have really small transaction fees.

> Does it cost anything in time and effort to use them?

Whatever the government version you proposed would do, let's keep it simple and make them act exactly the same.

> Who do you trust to tell you which micropayment services are good and trustworthy?

I dunno, who tells you that visa or stripe or kofi is good and trustworthy? If creators flock to a site, they'll draw in users.