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Comment by thinkmassive | Hacker News Reader

I would prefer to see 2 options in browsers:

1. LSAT[1] support for micropayments (recently mentioned on HN[2])

2. RandomX[3], mining XMR for the site owner

Both provide something useful, replacing advertising and/or subscriptions for the site owner, rather than solely wasting energy. Let's eliminate captchas and advertising together.

[1]: https://lsat.tech/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459713 [3]: https://xmrig.com/docs/miner

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LSAT looks really cool! Hopefully it can significantly displace ads as a revenue source. I’m happy to pay 1 cent to read a recommended blog post or something, and I’m not the sort of person who would pay for an online news outlet subscription.

Any mining-based payment will inherently be worse and less efficient than a money-based payment, especially for mobile.

I would love to have the option of 1 instead of solving a captcha. Charge me 0.1 - 10 cents worth of bitcoin depending on the action, and I'd happily pay.

There is a bot that does micropayments on Telegram via LN.

Excellent for preventing spam: https://twitter.com/lntxbot

If in the future all bitcoin-like currency transactions have to be reported for tax purposes, and there's all these micropayments, wouldn't that effectively make your browser history part of a tax audit?

Mining also fits the definition of "wasting energy"...

POW: Proof Of Waste

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