Bitcoin's Unfinished Business: Why Micropayments Still Matter
Markets Outlook
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Coindesks Consensus 20 22
Right now, paid selphon charging services are largely limited to airports where rushed, higher income fliers are willing to pay above the actual cost of a charge. If payments technologies made it possible to charge a more appropriate alicart price for charging, probably just a few cents per hour, including a healthy profit margin,. Intuition suggests charging services would be much more widely available. It's a market failure caused entirely by a lack of functional micro payments. That's an economic inefficiency that will only grow as the economy digitizes unless widespread and functional micro payments free the market from its technological traints.
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