Pay $0.05 to read an article.
The relative recent popularity of all-you-can-eat streaming of music and video vs. a la carte purchases would seem to support this view--although one could also argue that digital music and video purchases aren't really "micro."
But you can have automatic payments without crypto too. Hiding payments from the UX is what's actually solving the problem
ADDED: That said, it's not unrealistic to imagine a "hidden" micropayments scheme that deducts automatically and lets you know and/or just turns off if you hit some monthly threshold.
- pay a variable amount to the website you visit, based on how many visits and time you spent on;
- pay a fixed amount to a website of your choice;
Both options can be enabled at the same time, and the minimum number of visit, or the minimum length of the same, is adjustable;
Flattr[0] should be similar with fiat currency.
It makes it sound as if Apple News+ has more but not necessarily everything. In any case, I should probably give it a try.
Apple News+ has two dozen local newspapers, and hundreds of magazines from around the world for $10/month.
Browsing through random magazines was how I found out I have an interest in bird watching.
Today I learned that Toronto and Winnipeg are in the US.
I read hundreds of articles per week from dozens of journals from various backgrounds. I have three or four local newspapers I'm interested in, two or three in my mother tongue and dozens of international publications I like to read from. I tried subscribing to one of the local papers and it got boring pretty fast. I tried to subscribe to the Economist, but apart from two or three great articles per week I found them very dogmatic and I missed on all local events.
As long as there is not a serious Spotify like entrant journalism will keep dying.