Didn’t Tim Berners-Lee originally envision a way to pay for individual World Wide Web content via micro-payments? This would have been perfect for that. While most content today is monetized via advertisements (which ultimately directs which content gets published to maximize views), I’m guessing this was originally meant to enable the sort of transactional content delivery originally envisioned at the onset the web.
I know there have been multiple experiments with content micropayments (I remember google had a product that was meant to allow you to charge up a wallet and use it to avoid displaying ads on participating news publications), and I vaguely remember reading something about Brave doing something similar. Really curious if this would go anywhere in this context.
I know there have been multiple experiments with content micropayments (I remember google had a product that was meant to allow you to charge up a wallet and use it to avoid displaying ads on participating news publications), and I vaguely remember reading something about Brave doing something similar. Really curious if this would go anywhere in this context.