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Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? by johannes1234321 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:27PM (#39279264)
Pointing to my comment elsewhere on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39279246
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Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? by Mistletoe on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:01PM (#39282701)
Some blockchains have private transactions and very good at it indeed.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-xmr...

Monero has fees of six cents it looks like and a novel and private way of performing transactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature

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Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? by wbobeirne on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:02PM (#39284350)
Layer 2s such as Bitcoin's lightning network do not use a public ledger for their transactions. The only thing public is the transaction that opens a payment channel, everything after that happens as peer to peer messaging across the network.
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