Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet
by andai on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:16PM
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Here's an interesting article from 2003 about microtransactions that argues the main issue is actually mental burden of paying for hundreds of tiny things every day, ie. "mental transaction costs".
https://web.archive.org/web/20031202032448/http://www.shirky...
The concept seems to first appear in Nick Szabo's paper in 1999:
Things like Brave's Basic Attention Token seem to solve this problem in the sense that it's completely automatic based on the amount of time spent on each site. But then you have to use Brave, and you have to use BAT...
In my case, most of the money would go to YouTube, Reddit and HN. (I think Brave actually has a way to send the money to individual creators on a site rather than to the site itself. But I haven't used it personally.)
The concept seems to first appear in Nick Szabo's paper in 1999:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-...
Things like Brave's Basic Attention Token seem to solve this problem in the sense that it's completely automatic based on the amount of time spent on each site. But then you have to use Brave, and you have to use BAT...
In my case, most of the money would go to YouTube, Reddit and HN. (I think Brave actually has a way to send the money to individual creators on a site rather than to the site itself. But I haven't used it personally.)