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by gtardini 3210 days ago
i like the concept very much, but what's your idea for a sustainable future revenue model?
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We are looking into a few possibilities

1. Users pay a standard, fixed monthly rate into a pool from which we pay site owners. We hope this works like insurance where sporadic users underwrite power users and everyone wins.

2. Bring in Wall Street and public universities to underwrite the internet. Hitherto, the internet has been the domain of ad companies. For example, the stock market would benefit greatly from knowing the true health of companies but they are currently shut out since ad companies have a lock on raw data. Similarly, imagine the sheer scientific horsepower we can unleash if any Ph.D student could just firehose raw (depersonalized) internet data to identify patterns.

3. Present hype aside, a Coin may actually work to underwrite an ad free internet. Instead of blue skies ideas like replacing http, a browsing based Coin is a real option.