To comment on my comment: I'm suspicious of solutions that haven't articulated a problem1. That LLM was prompted by the OP to elaborate on what is in effect a convoluted paywall. Ignoring the convoluted part, paywalls exist to solve the free rider problem. It's natural to impose the rules of material goods on information goods, but it's naive:
information wants to be free (ie trivial to copy/jailbreak)
to determine information quality, absent some trusted source grading it, you need to see the thing to determine if you should pay to see it (chicken<>egg)
These are the problems that need to be solved. They have been solved fairly well in some cases. Regardless: the size of the good/payment is mostly irrelevant afaict.
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This endemic in bitcoin because most bitcoiners contribute to bitcoin primarily by talking about it ... so they take little risk when they engage in solution fantasies ... like ecash solving non-custodial UX non-custodially by being custodial. ↩
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