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Comment on: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
Fundamentally, microtransactions will never work because they make browsing a stack of decisions. It doesn't matter how small the price and seamless the infrastructure, it's still a cost you have to make a conscious decision about. Would you pay one satoshi to load this comment?The model that could work would be a large network with a single-sign-on ad-free subscription. Charge $20 per month and slice it to the participating sites based on analytics.This works because it's about eliminating customer risk and burden.* A large network helps to reduce the "what if I do't read a lot of articles