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Micropayments Going Mainstream? Not Yet.

Posted by timothy on from the penny-for-your-thoughts dept.

DotEdu writes "Today's NY Times has an interesting article on two new micropayment companies, BitPass and Peppercoin, and the venerable PayPal. More interesting than the companies are the critique: Micropayments are not the silver bullet. You still need to actually have a viable product that you can sell."

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  1. Viable product? by charleschuck · · Score: 5, Funny
    Micropayments are not the silver bullet. You still need to actually have a viable product that you can sell.

    Damn, there goes my plan to make cash off my years of collected ascii-art pr0n. :-(