The March Towards Micropayments

Posted by timothy on Monday June 28, 2004 @03:40PM 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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Re:reply by hunterx11 · 2004-06-28 15:50 · Score: 1, Redundant

If I tell you my opinion of your challenge, will I only have to pay $0.1998?

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Re:Micropayments are a nice idea but... by cryms0n · 2004-06-28 18:05 · Score: 1, Redundant

I agree, I use jew frequently in a casual context.

I do not think its a big deal.