Sounds kinda like BAT. Also inferior to zaps.
Anybody remember the Web Monetization API? It was an interesting idea, micropayments to a url, but stuck because it was tied to it’s own token… ugh…
But apparently the Coil token has been dropped… maybe there’s a case for lightning support? Seems like a web version of what we do with Zaps.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/24/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/
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BAT pays you to view advertising on people’s websites. Web Monetization API is a way of micropayments to publishers. So similar but opposite.
I think BAT initially had something like that on their roadmap, but fizzled out after that first use case.
Brave is a great browser, too, it’s a shame they hadn’t just gone the lightning route. I suppose they still could.