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Samson Mow, chief strategy officer at Blockstream, says Bitcoin was never about “transactions per second and coffee,” but about value and a “new financial paradigm.”
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Micropayments News
Micropayments — or microtransactions — are a popular business structure for spreading posted content and providing access to it for a small amount of money. In 2015, the profit of websites from advertisements fell dramatically, so from then now, implementing a system of micropayments has been being considered, so that users will pay pennies for looking at every webpage. For that purpose, micropayments in Bitcoin could be perfect to due the cryptocurrency being in online storage, low operational costs for providing online payments, etc. For micropayments, blockchain could work as a large, decentralized audit book in which every transaction would be recorded carefully so that the user can keep track of all viewed pages, the duration of viewing and the amount of micropayments for the content.
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Imgur received $20 million from an ex-Ripple CTO’s micropayments startup.
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The blockchain-centric smartphone Exodus, by consumer electronics giant HTC, has added support for multiple DApps and Opera browser.
6143 Micro payment company SatoshiPay has decided to give up on Bitcoin and Blockchain in favor of supposedly “superior” technology that is faster and cheaper to transact with.
25861Blockstream is making further connections with BitTorrent as ex-chief architect Arvid Norberg becomes a software engineer.
17069Ryan X Charles, Bitcoin-based content sharing platform Yours co-founder and software engineer, officially introduced the world’s first Bitcoin micropayments web wallet that is structurally similar to Core’s Lightning network.
899End-to-end Lightning micropayment transaction test shows that payments on a public Blockchain is possible.
512ACINQ has successfully tested and implemented leading Blockchain technology company Bitfury’s algorithm solution for instant payments routing on the Lightning Network.
1342Brave has announced that they are partnering with Coinbase and BitGo to provide Bitcoin wallets and purchasing tools for the Brave Ledger.
1215Cointelegraph speaks to experts from Safe Cash Payment Technologies, Inc, Bitfortip.com, SatoshiPay.io, PopChest.com and Fuzo to learn their views on micropayments.
2233In the undeclared war between online advertisers and Internet users, a new dynamic promises to change everything.
930JoyStream is a new BitTorrent client that incentivizes users to make file-sharing both faster and monetarily rewarding.
2068Recent innovative ideas and projects, such as micropayment channels and the lightning network, are creating trustless channels between people so they can transact with each other without touching the blockchain.
681Hourglass is yet another promising project by BitcoinJ developer and former Google engineer Mike Hearn, which has already surpassed the crowdfunding goal for its initial design.
1251At the start of the New Year, we reported that ChangeTip was adding Facebook and Slack integration. The Facebook integration was already there for some users, but Slack had not yet been rolled out to the public.
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