Clearly use case for Lightning. Did anyone try to do implement this and convince some of the bigger publishers to enable it?
2162 sats \ 1 reply \ @chris42 8 Oct 2023
Getmash currently is working on this.
Way back in 2020 we attempted this with Satotious(now defunct). It was a paywall which would let the users choose between viewing an ad or paying with lightning. The issues we hit were:
- Lightning was super new back then, no easy on/off ramps. -- better now with big exchanges doing lightning (kraken, binance)
- My assumption was that users may not want to pay for things, actually they were cool with paying and it was the publishers who didn't want Bitcoin.
- Big publishers who use paywalls( like wsj, New York times etc) are really conservative. Adding a pay per article might reduce their membership numbers.
- Big publishers who relied on ads were scared of losing users if they added a paywall.
- Small/new publishers(think hobbyist blog) were trying to grow into big publishers, adding a paywall was too much user friction for too little benefit (they might earn a small amount but would not get many users and grow)
I still think micro payments is way better than ads(in a way ads are micropayments). Hopefully with more lightning adoption, we will have a web with less ads and tracking!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @phaedrus OP 23 Oct 2023
Very insightful response. Thank for sharing your learnings!
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920 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8 Oct 2023
https://twitter.com/LNCheckout/status/1579047324260904960
with
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bitcoin-lightning-publisher/
Also you have many more plugins like mash or alby
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @phaedrus OP 23 Oct 2023
Nice!
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300 sats \ 0 replies \ @9ener1c 8 Oct 2023
I don’t think any big publishers have tried it yet because it’s too hard to get normies on board without better in-built Lightning support on browsers or mobile OSes. Plugins just won’t cut it when it comes to user uptake.
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200 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 8 Oct 2023
Bitcoin magazine does this already
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 8 Oct 2023
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @2bithits 8 Oct 2023
He's had a bunch of bitcoiners on his podcast. I guess he still hasn't looked into bitcoin
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @phaedrus OP 23 Oct 2023
It's more complicated. He wants to access the articles on NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc -- looking into Bitcoin won't solve it for him.
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