The TRUTH about micropayments | What Kind of Internet Do You Want? (Season 2, Episode 1)

Описание: Micropayments may be the most controversial topic in the (technical) history of the internet. Micropayments for web monetization have been discussed since the very beginning of the web, there was even space left in the specification (code 402) because it was assumed they would become part of the protocol. And yet, 30 years later, micropayments have still not caught on.

Thought leaders like Clay Shirky & Nick Szabo laid out strong arguments for why micropayments would never succeed 20 years ago, but could blockchain micropayments change this? Could micropayments using cryptocurrency be the solution? Can blockchain & distributed public ledgers like Bitcoin change this future technology and help contemporary media and digital content creators find alternative funding?

New micropayment payments technology and web monetization applications like Coil are getting lots of attention from cryptocurrency news as the future of web 3.0.

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Special thanks to Grant for the Web for supporting this episode. Grant for the Web is a fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in Web Monetization.

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Links
Ted's Channel:    / thetednelson  

Micropayments Demos:
   • Consensus 2021 Micropayments, Web Monetiza...  
   • Alexandria over Social Media & Web Browser...  
   • Token Controlled Access OIP Proof of Conce...  

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Research:

The case against micropayments by Clay Shirky
https://archive.is/LFUW4

Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/...

The case against micropayments by Andrew Odlyzko
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/c...

“The Case Against Micropayments” — From Fear and Surprise to The Comfy Chair by Richard Reisman
  / the-case-against-micropayments-from-fear-a...  

The Future of Micropayments 2020 conference
   • Fireside Chat: Money at Human Scale: Dougl...  

Jaron Lanier on connected media & universal micropayments
   • Jaron Lanier on connected media, universal...  

Ooyala says micropayments loom large
   • Ooyala Says Micropayments for Online Video...  
Bismarck Lepe (founded Ooyala, formally at as google Senior Product Manager responsible for the development and launch of monetization products for the Google AdSense network

Blendle: Alexander Klopping June 10th 2015
   • Blendle: Alexander Klöpping (June 10th 2015)  

The case for micropayments by Jakob Nielsen
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-...

Weaving the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Microsoft Way book

W3C proposal https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-Micropa...

Chris Dixon podcast

Loan Shark image by James Yang https://www.wsj.com/articles/loan-sha...