Bitcoin Micropayments Can Save The Arts
The rise of Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, has resurrected the hope of facilitating easy micropayments for content online, writes Walter Isaacson on Time Magazine. Isaacson is the author of the recently published "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution." Producing compelling content in journalism and the art takes time, effort, and energy. It's evident that creators must be paid for their work. Otherwise, they will be forced to do other things for a living, and everyone will lose. But it's difficult to be paid for online content,....
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WatchMyBit is a new video sharing platform that will open its doors next week for initial beta testing. The platform will permit video creators to upload their videos, and viewers to view the videos using a Bitcoin micropaywall system. In other words, this ambitious project wants to be the Bitcoin Youtube, with a pay-per-view model based on Bitcoin micropayments. Also read: Bitcoin Micropayments Can Save The Arts. Rewarding video creators for their work makes a lot of sense (see the comments to our review of The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin). Creative artists and producers must be able to make....
ChangeTip wants to be "a Love button for the Internet," a simple way to show appreciation with a micropayment in Bitcoin. ChangeTip lives on the social networks that we all use every day so that your tip could trigger a viral avalanche of micropayments to a worthy person, or cause, and make a difference. Also read: Bitcoin Micropayments Can Save The Arts. When a Like isn't enough, mention @changetip and an amount to show your appreciation, and they will send a Bitcoin tip to destination. Anytime you want to reward someone, all you have to do is mention Changetip and an amount, and they'll....
Electronic Arts (EA), an important gaming and entertainment-oriented company, has made insightful remarks about the importance of NFTs and the play-to-earn model in its last earnings call. Andrew Wilson, CEO of the company, addressed the subject in response to several questions posed by business analysts.
Electronic Arts Open to NFTs and Play-to-Earn
Electronic Arts, the company behind gaming sports franchises like FIFA and NBA, has assessed the importance of new technologies like NFTs and the play-to-earn model for the gaming industry. During the company’s latest earnings....
Bellator fighter Mark "Tricky" Dickman likes the bitcoin ATM at One Kick Nick's in Las Vegas. Mixed martial arts students in Las Vegas can now pay for their training in bitcoin if they so choose. They can also buy bitcoin at One Kick Nick's Mixed Martial Arts Gym which now has a bitcoin ATM. The popular Las Vegas gym recently installed a bitcoin ATM to meet the growing interest in bitcoin among the youthful, tech-savvy mixed martial arts community. Bitcoin Direct LLC, an Ann Arbor, Mich. -based company, mounted the General Bytes ATM on a wall in plain view of visitors and students. Patrons....
Ryan X. Charles, co-founder and software engineer of Bitcoin-based content sharing platform Yours, officially introduced the world’s first Bitcoin micropayments web wallet that is structurally similar to Core’s Lightning network. Upon the introduction of Lightning by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja in 2015, developers and startups saw the first potential of a Bitcoin micropayments system which would allow applications and platforms to rely on the security measures of the Bitcoin network but benefit from increased flexibility and scalability. Steemit under fire of criticism. Essentially, the....