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0 pointsL-four1y ago0 comments

It's not that people don't want to pay it's that it's difficult to pay small sums. The web browsers could solve this problem but they make money from ads so it's not in there best interest.

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nradov1y ago

Jakob Nielsen's article "The Case for Micropayments" from 1998 still seems relevant. Nothing has really changed in 26 years so I'm skeptical whether it could ever work, but in principle it would be great for users and website owners to have that option.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-case-for-micropayments/

UI_at_80x241y ago

And this was one of the hopes/goals/dreams that crypto offered that I really wish had come true.

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0 pointsL-four1y ago0 comments

It's not that people don't want to pay it's that it's difficult to pay small sums. The web browsers could solve this problem but they make money from ads so it's not in there best interest.

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nradov1y ago

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-case-for-micropayments/

UI_at_80x241y ago

And this was one of the hopes/goals/dreams that crypto offered that I really wish had come true.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse