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I would say NFT and micropayments are killer apps. It would be fantastic if we had browser addon where you can 1-click pay something like 0.01$ to read article.

NFT for gaming is going to be huge industry eg pro-gamers could sell their character skins same way now eg basketball players sell their jerseys or you could import that Hearthstone deck to complete new game.

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For micropayments, there has been flattr. Wasn't really accepted and won't get better if you somehow put a blockchain in there.

For the second: Just go with gumroad or Paypal or whatnot.

Your points just prove, that there's no need for blockchain after all.

Maybe nanopayment would be better term I mean like truly small amounts not something like 3$ like flattr or 1$ like Gumroad.

Just flattr more things so your monthly amount get distributed more. I think that should work and there's no "lower limit" on how much a single click is worth.

But yeah, it would be nice if you could set a fixed amount per button, like 10 Cent for an article or something like that.

| 1-click pay something like 0.01$ to read article.

How would this work in a way that takes gas/fees into consideration?

That's kind of the point: it's completely infeasible to do microtransactions with Ethereum, much less Bitcoin. At time of writing it costs around $23 (!) to do a single ETH transaction.

We can if the network is not full of professional miners. If every user has a practical chance to pack their transaction into a block.

There are several lightning network (payment channel layer on top of bitcoin) paywalls where you can pay 1/10 of a cent to read an article. The tech exists, its now an adoption problem

It’ll be possible with L2 like Optimism which will be out for the public next month.

Do it in a state channel or rollup.

I present you https://yalls.org/

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