All that’s needed is a good, low-friction payment platform. We don’t have one, right now, so we still see ad-funding everywhere. If BAT takes off, it’ll end.
I don’t know what BAT is, but I do know that we all wanted micropayments instead of an advertising-supported Internet in 1990.
Even if you have a good micropayment protocol it can be hard to get everybody enrolled. Remember, you have to enroll everybody you’d see on a city bus. That means the 12 year old kid, the homeless guy, the 85-year-old who already has trouble every time they change the coin till, and even the crazy drunk. They all have to be able to figure it out, they all have to be able to get an account, they all have to be able to fund stuff, etc.
I don’t know what BAT is, but I do know that we all wanted micropayments instead of an advertising-supported Internet in 1990.
What makes you think so? When I heard Marc Andreessen opinion on the topic, than he said that one of the main reasons why payment in the internet didn’t get implemented is because the guys didn’t bother.
Phone calls and SMS do have payment options and there’s no foundamental reason why they didn’t bake payment into the web on a basic level expect that they didn’t bother at the time and focused their attention on developing different features.
BAT is Basic Attention Token, part of the Brave project IIRC. Though it’s not necessary for micropayments replacing advertising, it’s a direct path.
It’s weird to think that digital micropayments simply weren’t possible until cryptocurrency started to attack the legal barriers, but that is what I’m thinking.
I don’t know what BAT is, but I do know that we all wanted micropayments instead of an advertising-supported Internet in 1990.
Even if you have a good micropayment protocol it can be hard to get everybody enrolled. Remember, you have to enroll everybody you’d see on a city bus. That means the 12 year old kid, the homeless guy, the 85-year-old who already has trouble every time they change the coin till, and even the crazy drunk. They all have to be able to figure it out, they all have to be able to get an account, they all have to be able to fund stuff, etc.
I don’t know what BAT is, but I do know that we all wanted micropayments instead of an advertising-supported Internet in 1990.
What makes you think so? When I heard Marc Andreessen opinion on the topic, than he said that one of the main reasons why payment in the internet didn’t get implemented is because the guys didn’t bother.
Phone calls and SMS do have payment options and there’s no foundamental reason why they didn’t bake payment into the web on a basic level expect that they didn’t bother at the time and focused their attention on developing different features.
BAT is Basic Attention Token, part of the Brave project IIRC. Though it’s not necessary for micropayments replacing advertising, it’s a direct path.
It’s weird to think that digital micropayments simply weren’t possible until cryptocurrency started to attack the legal barriers, but that is what I’m thinking.