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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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The Problems With Micro Payments

There are three major problems when it comes to micro payments idea that you're going to pay on sort of a per article basis. Number one is the lack of a payment layer like what do you guys so every single article? And moreover that credit card has a 29 to 30 cent per charge fee plus you know 3% of the charge. So there's all sorts of like problems just from a sort of technical perspective. I mean there has been some success in micro payments most not really micro payments it's more micro tipping in the Chinese ecosystem.

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