I think we are missing an important way that Micropayments can be used.
The user can Earn money though Micropayments as well as spend.
Example: Lets say you are a Meteorological organisation and you would like to get finer granularity of your barometric readings. You sell a mini weather station to a user, and the software provided captures the weather data for their location and uploads it to the Meteorlogical Bureau. The user earns Microcredits for this, cheaper than putting in your own weather stations.
I think Microcredits can be used both ways.
You can be paid for Rendering Images for a movie, performing 'Human Only' tasks for other companies, and have web sites that list all the things you can do to earn Microcredits.
Why can't I get paid in Microcredits to fold Protien Molecules for some Research Lab...
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I think we are missing an important way that Micropayments can be used.
The user can Earn money though Micropayments as well as spend.
Example:
Lets say you are a Meteorological organisation and you would like to get finer granularity of your barometric readings. You sell a mini weather station to a user, and the software provided captures the weather data for their location and uploads it to the Meteorlogical Bureau. The user earns Microcredits for this, cheaper than putting in your own weather stations.
I think Microcredits can be used both ways.
You can be paid for Rendering Images for a movie, performing 'Human Only' tasks for other companies, and have web sites that list all the things you can do to earn Microcredits.
Why can't I get paid in Microcredits to fold Protien Molecules for some Research Lab...