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Re:Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets by tatertots1234 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @03:18AM (#31797014)
Many Patreon payments are simple donations, or gated access to digital media. These can be achieved with smart contract functionality to mitigate the need for costly payment processing.
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Re:Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets by compuguy on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:46PM (#31804669)
Yes though I would point out that smart contracts require some knowledge of coding knowledge to implement....
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Re:Patreon cuts deep inside creators’ pockets by tatertots1234 on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:02AM (#31808804)
Yes, a theoretical crypto-Patreon would have to be coded in Solidity and frontend interfaces built around it for the web. This might be OSS or just a private enterprise.

But the users of this platform do not need to know how to code.

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