| On the one hand I want something like a "Donation Feed" similar to an RSS feed. Something that I can put money into, set rules for, and over a period of time dispense cents/fractions of a bitcoin/whatever as per rules. The rules - and default rules in particular! - would be important. Maybe you like the author so much you donate on the regular just anyway. Maybe a plugin in my browser can see when I visit a site and automatically donate. If I don't visit the site, it doesn't pay. Maybe you donate 0.1 of a cent to ANY website that has no ads or doesn't trigger your adblocker. $1 buys you 1000 such visits. Then a RSS-like "Donation" button would be meaningful for longer term income, without all the hassle of Patreon etc. OTOH, I worry that sites would then start watching such transactions and try setting floor limits for how much you need to donate before they serve you. Any ruleset will inspire gaming that ruleset. |