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Somewhat unrelated, but the reason micropayments aren't a thing isn't that transaction fees are too high. The reason is that consumers hate them.

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/02/why-small-payments-wont...



The idea of a micropayment isn't monolithic. People certainly will not like to be nickle-and-dimed to read the news, but that's fairly obvious.

The real model here is Patreon. Patreon is (well, was) about bundling payments to make recurring micropayments practical. Their execution has issues (it's also highly successful) but the fundamental idea of recurring micropayments is totally sound. Audiences are receptive to it, and creators can legitimately support their work with this kind of aggregate payment.




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