| > This is not a revolution I can get behind. Read again my very first comment. It does not need to be a "revolution" to be useful. As long as it is can be really useful to some people some of the time, it is already valuable. > After talking to a lot people, I don't think any self-respecting creator online wants to exist in that space for any longer than they have to because it's rife with scams. Sorry, that is BS. Plenty of "self-respecting" businesses and people are willing to work just for the expectation of money through advertisements, why wouldn't they work for micropayments? And again, the idea is to have another option, not to have an all-encompassing solution. It does not have to be a binary choice. > Again you're changing the discussion to the customer, not the market operator. Markets do not exist in a vaccum. The whole point of credit cards is that it makes the transaction easier/faster/cheaper for the consumer, so of course you need to look at the solution as a whole. > the network itself and the miners (or whatever) is still the middleman No, the network does not charge a proportion of the transaction costs. They provide a service. Do you count your electric company and your ISP as "middlemen" between you and your Amazon purchases? > I still fail to see what the actual practical benefit of crypto... Welcome to 1995: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk |