Whatever Happened to Micropayments?

prostoalex writes "Remember Flooz? Or Beenz? With a few notable successes (PayPal, and that's about it) online micropayment industry is saving its success stories for future generations. New York Times reports about two nascent micropayment systems, one coming out of Stanford, one out of MIT, that are supposed to help the content producers and Internet users to engage in less-than-a-dollar financial transactions without huge overhead costs, so typical of credit card payments. BitPass requires you to purchase a virtual debit card with a certain amount on it to pay for products and services, and PepperCoin consolidates numerous micropayments into one bill that is then split between the content providers that managed to sell their product to the Internet user." I still believe that single penny transactions will revolutionize the net.

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Re:Fractions of a Penny

[operagost]

Sure thing, Evil Superman III Villan.

Re:Naaah. There's no conundrum.

[mjmalone]

I sure hope not, paypal is a horrible service and I would not reccomend it to anyone. Just check out some of the stories over at http://www.paypalsucks.com/