24 points sjdh76 2 hours ago 8 comments
araarabish 2 hours ago | parent
Are we going to see all search engines adopting this model? Will this be the future of search engine revenue? May end up more pro-consumer than ads and tracking.
reassess_blind 35 minutes ago | parent
I really doubt this will catch on
makingstuffs 2 minutes ago | parent
Same, it is built on the USDC stable coin and if crypto has taught me anything it is that it is that people do not trust it (ironically). Companies like Circle do absolutely nothing to protect their users while banks etc have mechanisms by which a user has a path to recourse.
Granted this is for micropayments and each search will most likely cost pennies but it still means loading up some real money into a digital wallet which an agent will blindly (and most likely very inefficiently) spend at its own discretion.
Time will tell, I guess.
com2kid 19 minutes ago | parent
This may be the least stupid use of the block chain I've ever heard of.
Mind you Visa could have implemented this when everyone first asked back in 1999, but hey here we are. Rather than micro payments instead we let ads do their best to ruin western civilization.
iloveyoutwo 3 minutes ago | parent
Sigh, still no private payments through Monero support from a privacy focused browser with crypto features.