Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days?
mayo@lemmy.world 1 day agoI don’t understand why cryptocurrency isn’t an accepted solution to this. Open firefox, attach wallet, drip $0.25/month/user. It’s good for tiny transactions.
Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days?
mayo@lemmy.world 1 day agoI don’t understand why cryptocurrency isn’t an accepted solution to this. Open firefox, attach wallet, drip $0.25/month/user. It’s good for tiny transactions.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 day ago
Because crypto just has such a stink on it.
It may well be a reasonable solution for this specific problem, but still… no one is going to get behind this.
mayo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes now it does, it’s beyond soured. But it’s a strange disconnect. Ignoring all the social commentary and looking for the most practical solution for making small pay-per-use payments - it was right there.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 day ago
Maaaaaybe. I think the actual advantages over other methods are fairly intangible.
If “surfing the web” required making many very small anonymous payments every hour then yeah, there’s advantages. I’ll admit that doesn’t actually sound terrible - I’d rather pay a few cents to read articles than the current advertising & subscription model.
As a solution for mozilla in isolation though, it would be an over engineered solution with too much baggage. Current mozilla users might have the aptitude for something like this but Mozilla wants to seduce a larger market share which is not people like us.
mayo@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Ya I think the ship has sailed, maybe one day. Right now it would be a loony toons move.