Bitcoin Micropayments

There is an exciting way that Bitcoin (BTC) and its lightning network might be able to change the landscape of the Internet and how we send and receive content and funds across the web. Here's the Bitcoin take on micropayments, a direly-needed solution to content distribution online.

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Credits:
Music is either

Music by: Sirius Beat - The Cosmos

Background video is often images from the Hubble telescope or
Recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK
SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe]

Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.

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[Teutonium]

Micropayments at a large scale will open many new ways to use Bitcoin, unfortunately, Bcash, BSV, ETH and many many other blockchains have been doing them for quite a while and have a first-mover advantage, especially Ethereum with BAT... Let's see if people will move to mainly BTC when they start implementing micropayments at a large scale, the first move advantage might make BTC's adoption a lot more difficult since other alternatives are already out there with users.

Regardless, this is great news, I'm stacking sats!

You got yourself a new sub

[williamh]

I come for the crypto, I stay for the moon graphics

[wordsinthewilderness]

If you like that sort of thing check out Hydra that will be used initially by Cardano.

[DerrickJLive]

Micropayments are happening all day every day on WeatherSV, Twetch, Bit.sv, and Anypay. All on-chain. Bitcoin scales. Nothing special needed. No side-chains needed.

[cronbtc]

lightning network has been pretty much a failure in my opinion. Plus BTC is store of value, BCH is for payments