3 Ways Yours May Allow Users to Monetize Their Content With Bitcoin

Content creators are scratching their heads while trying to come up with new ways of monetizing their content. The old traditional advertising model seems to be on the way out, as more and more users consume content on mobile devices. Now that Discontent, a new application for iOS users, has been released, monetizing content has become even more difficult, although Bitcoin could prove to be a valuable alternative. Web content has been a topic of heavy debate in recent years, as some people feel there is too much clutter posted online. Hardly any of the articles or blog posts are properly....

Paymeabit is an Italian startup that allows social media users monetize their content. Every action on the Paymeabit social platform earns the user a small fraction of bitcoin. The digital currency economy is gradually moving towards the user-generated online content market. There are plenty of digital currency based social media platforms making an appearance in the recent days to help content creators monetize their work. Steem is one such platform which has already made its mark in the digital currency segment with its own cryptotoken. While Steem tokens happen to be the third largest....

Popular BitTorrent client Frostwire has integrated an experimental mechanism that will allow users to donate bitcoins to torrent sharers. In addition to bitcoin, the same mechanism can be used for litecoin, dogecoin and even PayPal. FrostWire believes the idea will allow small content creators to easily monetize their content simply by getting tips from those who download it using the P2P client. Needless to say, Big Content is probably not thrilled by the prospect of decentralised content markets, let alone the fact that the technology could even be used to monetize piracy. However, that....

SatoshiPay, an online payments company headquartered in London, announced the launch of a platform for Web publishers, offering a new way to monetize content through frictionless micropayments. SatoshiPay’s payment technology gives users the ability to transact amounts as small as one cent or less – which the company refers to as “nanopayments” – by leveraging blockchain technology. “Nanopayments can be fractions of a cent. They are instantly settled and can be executed at high frequency. Imagine a couple of payments per second by a single user,” said SatoshiPay co-founder and CEO Meinhard....

The mobile business is booming in recent years, and many companies are trying their hand at creating addictive mobile games. Developing such games takes time, money, and effort, leading to a few possible solutions to monetize these games. Most developers opt for in-game advertising in between levels, or while browsing the menus. But it seems like that business model is no longer sufficient. Monetizing any type of content in the online or mobile industry is not an easy task. Even though most people consume all types of content on their mobile devices these days, that doesn’t mean there will....