Payments, Payment Rails, and Blockchains, and the Metaverse — MatthewBall.co

Removing the friction from micro-payments: Cryptocurrencies drive down the cost and complexity of transferring value. As digital wallets proliferate, micro-payment systems will become commonplace across open publishing environments. We are already seeing more of this behavior with the popularity of platform-specific tipping solutions. Web3 will mak... See more

The hard reality is that $ₐ is much much greater than $ᵤ for an enormous number of media experiences. It was never the lack of micro-payment solutions that meant advertising for content had to exist; it’s merely the fact that $ₐ > $ᵤ for most users on many services. Thus, facilitating seamless payment via tokens doesn’t necessarily impact the under... See more