Brave does microtransactions by browsing. Before that, flattr basically did the same. There were apps that charged cents per article, or a few bucks for the entire paper. Subscriptions for multiple papers, to fix the “I’m not paying X for just one newspaper” problem, have also been introduced a few times. This stuff never caught on despite apps giving away discounts with that sweet VC money.
The problem isn’t technological. Most people just don’t want to pay. Some people missed all the different attempts at modernising news, but most people just seem to think paying a few euros per month is to much money for news.
I’m not talking about the media, I’m talking about the payment systems. US bills are government backed. None of the payment systems you mentioned are government backed. I’m proposing a system that would be government backed, and would therefore be easy to setup both as a vendor and a consumer.
Brave does microtransactions by browsing. Before that, flattr basically did the same. There were apps that charged cents per article, or a few bucks for the entire paper. Subscriptions for multiple papers, to fix the “I’m not paying X for just one newspaper” problem, have also been introduced a few times. This stuff never caught on despite apps giving away discounts with that sweet VC money.
The problem isn’t technological. Most people just don’t want to pay. Some people missed all the different attempts at modernising news, but most people just seem to think paying a few euros per month is to much money for news.
None of that was backed by the government.
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I’m not talking about the media, I’m talking about the payment systems. US bills are government backed. None of the payment systems you mentioned are government backed. I’m proposing a system that would be government backed, and would therefore be easy to setup both as a vendor and a consumer.