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• Towards Web Monetization

  Currently, the dominant player in the Web Monetization space is Coil, a subscription service that provides a Chrome extension to users. It connects to your cryptocurrency wallet - right now, Web Monetization works primarily on the Ripple blockchain. Whenever the Chrome extension detects a payment pointer, or a wallet address, it starts streaming micropayments. The page to which payments are being streamed can... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff

  Https://coil.com/ for a "self-hosted" solution. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Elon Musk $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit expands

  It's not been adopted by any large news sites yet, but many smaller content providers have used it to allow users access to additional content. This is being done by a company called Coil: Https://coil.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to set up your own personal blog: Step-By-Step Guide

  Coil is a web monetization provider. You can sign up on coil as a creator and add the web monetization tag to your site. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls

  The tech already exists, see [1] and [2]. And if you feel bad about leaving your credit card details somewhere, you could use a plugin like Alby [3]. [1] https://lnpay.co [2] https://coil.com [3] https://getalby.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Is There Hope for Micropayments?

  I don't want to be that guy... But I'm going to be that guy. Check out nano: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(cryptocurrency) Granted it is a cryptocurrency, but it is feeless and ~1 second confirmation. I too thought it sounded like magic when I first heard of it. Also, the browser extension you wish for exists, it's called Coil: https://coil.com/ but it simply doesn't have enough buy-in to work. The real... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Bypass all major news paywalls

  Totally agree. Micropayments have not worked because major news outlets won't use them. Technically it's a solved problem. See Coil for example: https://coil.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Building Payment systems for the World at Hackathons

  You probably already know this — because we’ve mentioned it a few times — but Coil champions and supports open-source projects and is privacy-first, by default. Over the years, Developer Relations at Coil has championed and sponsored teams that write Open Web Documentations and projects that empower open-source developers to get paid. Coil has also incubated many open-source projects like Tigerbeetle and Rafiki. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• what is competing with this project?

  I saw a website https://coil.com that is doing the payout part of BAT (and the creator support). But (seemingly) nothing else is competing with serving privacy-focused ads AND paying the user for doing so. Source: over 2 years ago

• General Info and Daily Discussion

  That's exactly what Coil and fynbos are trying to solve! fynbos is using something called interledger (which lists ripple as a funder, take that as you will), but I don't know any more than that. I agree that micropayments are where nano would really shine over other cryptos - can't be taking fees out of a <$5 payment! Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Readup is a reading browser that removes ads and pays writers per-read

  How would you say this compares to the Web Monetization standard (https://webmonetization.org/) and Coil (https://coil.com/)? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• A blog post about blogging

  If there is one thing I hate more than popups asking you to sign up for a newsletter, it is ads. Luckily I found a great replacement called Coil. You basically pay Coil 5 dollars per month and install a browser plugin. Whenever you visit a website that has Coil, you pay a small part of your 5 dollars to that website, depending on how long you spent on this website. This makes sure your subscription goes to the... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Would you fund a world-wide-web without tracking?

  So, as a researcher, who is getting paid to study how ycombinator users(and those on other websites) feel about micropayments(which already exist in the form of https://coil.com/ for content and https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/web-monetization-events-in-plausible/ for advertisements and https://www.pumabrowser.com/ for software),. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Support your favorite streamers with Twitch bits for FREE!

  To celebrate the recent ESL Pro League Season 14 Finals, Coil is offering a free trial for players who are ranked DMG and above for 30 days. Source: over 2 years ago

• Medium Is Bad. Stop Using It

  Yeah honestly if I wasn’t writing on Medium and was only a reader, I’m not sure I would pay for it either. I totally get the gripes from a casual reader stand point. There are some unique approaches to this idea of casual viewing. I know Coil (https://coil.com/) is doing this with the whole idea of Web 3.0. The idea, if I understand correctly, is you pay $5 a month for a membership, and any time you consume... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• My first game jam in 13K or less

  And if you're using Coil you can gain a little extra control and set the game rules however you'd like 😉. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Is Ripple (XRP) no more than a glorified scam?

  How about Changing the way web content gets monetized to a new way which rewards engaging good content and pushes clickbait or bad content? https://coil.com/ payments settled live by the second in the denomination the receiver prefers? is that a scam? How about you figure out where the scam is and present the evidence for it, instead of just asking open ended questions you dont understand? Source: over 2 years ago

• Why the Substack hype is much ado about little

  This is what excites me about the proposed W3 Web Monetization standard. I don't want to establish a billing relationship with every creator whose content I value. Have a wallet that's loaded with value, send out payments for every second you spend with a creator's work. https://coil.com and https://WebMonetization.org. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• There are now at least 20 different subscription services in the GB EU

  People are experimenting with alternatives to paying for content. Coil is interesting but I feel like they're very far from becoming an industry standard. Brave Rewards is also interesting. The crypto space is naturally providing a lot of spins on this problem of taking a fixed budget and spreading it out to creators. Source: almost 3 years ago

• USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?

  IMO the problem is really committing to a single news source. I'd happily pay for news. I just don't want to pay to, say, the NYT just to read a couple of pieces a week. (Ignoring the NYT shady unsubscribe practices) The solution seems to be either micropayments or some form of news agglomeration. I pay for a Coil[1] subscription which solves micropayments, unfortunately very few sites have implemented it (and no... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Still waiting for XRP to take over the world.....??

  Now ofc you can use Ripples Unique Node List, but there are alternative UNL's from coil.com, or the XRP Ledger Foundation. Source: almost 3 years ago