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> Micro payments cannot come soon enough.

Any idea how to encourage quality content with micropayments? The naive implementation would be to charge on opening the article, but I suspect that would just encourage more click-bait headlines. Short articles can still contain good content, so just tracking reading time wouldn't be sufficient either.



Blendle allows no-question refunds, and it seems to be working very well. I think you'd have to do it that way.


For the Bitcoiners, there's the nano-paywall from https://satoshipay.io/ . (I'm part of the team working on this). We're currently trying to integrate fiat payments too, which would make this a browser wallet of sorts that can be used to pay micro-amounts to publishers. Still early days, but think we're on to something with a lot of potential.


Pay a fixed amount every month to a third party that redistribute money to all the articles that you "liked" with a button.


That's the model of Flattr. I have no idea how successful they are though.

https://flattr.com


I have a Flattr account, but I only use it for regular contributions to a couple of open source projects, since I never see a button anywhere.


Being in the content game, it's because it's totally not worth littering pages for the 5 cents a month it'd make.

I'm hyperbolizing, but even if it were $100/month, it wouldn't be worth the space. What this space needs is someone with deep pockets to subsidize the publisher growth until the critical mass of users is reached.


Micropayments have been the obvious - to me - solution for this problem since I got on the internet in 1997. Still never seen it employed anywhere. Yes, heard of flattr. Never seen a single site that uses it.


I feel like unless it's opt-out per article, you'll forget to click often enough that the price of clicking will have to be high




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