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The March Towards Micropayments

Posted by timothy on from the just-send-me-e-gold dept.

MattW writes "It's been well over a year since Ron Rivest's company Peppercoin was introduced on Slashdot. Now, the AP is reporting that Peppercoin 2.0 is here. Peppercoin's website indicates that version 2.0 pays merchants exactly what they charged, instead of with cryptographically signed tokens which may or may not sum out to exactly the expected charges. This looks like the technology that will enable credit card acceptance in vending machines and video games, but may not solve the need for truly "micro" payments, like paying $.005 for a page view."

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  1. reply by celeritas_2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll pay you $0.0002 to think up a more clever reply than this!

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  2. This means that "My 2 cents worth" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..will be big money rather than chump change.