nicol, 9 months ago

@rwg nice title.

You mention subscriptions: if you've not already connected, linking this to @Jeremiah who is doing a lot of work atm around the fediverse and #WebMonitization, the best(/only?) cross-browser protocol for decentralised subscriptions: https://community.interledger.org/jeremiahlee/web-monetization-in-the-fediverse-ilf-grant-progress-report-1-37c7. Sadly the only WebMon service, Coil.com, stopped this year but I think the backers Interledger see this as a long-game.

There was even a PeerTube plugin (https://github.com/samlich/peertube-plugin-web-monetization) that briefly paid me real pennies per play!

Jeremiah, 9 months ago

@nicol @rwg Congrats on the contract! I look forward to reading it.

I think of Interledger as “federated Venmo”. One-time tips, recurring support, and streaming micropayments (aka Web Monetization) can all be accomplished using it. @Interledger is working hard to support financial institutions all over the world in supporting the protocol. It’s a long game, but I expect to see at least 1 launch before the end of the year.

nicol, 9 months ago

@Jeremiah @rwg @Interledger (googles venmo!)

The vision does feel like federated banking, but cheap enough to finally make online micro- & nano- payments viable.

It took a few face-to-face conversations in NOLA before I could trust it really is as decentralised as it sounds, ie there's not a huge centralised ledger/bank/cryptopitch hiding in the background. Most people I speak to about it assume the worst. Decentralized, seamless, agnostic & safe micro-payments just sounds too good to be true!

jonny, 9 months ago

@rwg
ok I'm both excited to read this and also super curious how you have rigged up the fedi comments -> blog setup