Micropayments — instantly with one click paying, say, 1 cent to the author/creator of something you happen on online with ALL of that 1 cent going directly into their bank account — have been the subject of endless discussion ever since the internet became a thing.
And yet we're still not even close.
Patreon/Buy Me a Coffee/Ko-fi/Gumroad/Ghost/Substack etc. all aim to let you pay creators but none are even close to the frictionless micropayments envisioned since the last century.
I don't have much hope that they'll happen in my lifetime.
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