> automatically increase the prices of requests by a fraction of a cent to compensate
Great concept.
CPU, bandwidth, electricity, it's all just energy. And to a significant degree, money is just energy stored. I generate energy with my own work, store it in the form of money, and then transfer that energy to someone else, maybe to heat my home or cook me a meal.
Before money, I had to barter for those things. Maybe conceptually the internet is in a similar state at the moment. It doesn't have 'money'. Why can't I put CPUs in my wallet and then spend them? And why can't I charge visitors to my site by the CPUs they are costing me?
Instead, I have to, in a way, barter. For example, maybe I use ad revenue to earn my income, so I generate all this content, I barter that to the search engines, which barter with the advertisers, which barter with me, and I barter back to security guards to protect me from 'bad' actor bots. I'd really just like to receive CPU and bandwidth payments from them.
Isn't the reason we are freed from barter in daily life is because the government is intimately involved in the financial/banking system, and regulates it and issues money and so on? Maybe we continue to struggle with the internet because it started out unregulated and has never really transcended that because people insist on thinking freedom is best for commerce without appreciating the nuances.
There are alternatives to that. For all of the hype and vaporware of the cryptocurrency movement, the idea of digital-native programmable internet money is a powerful one. I’m personally excited by the idea of involving currency at the protocol level and having it interact naturally over tcp/ip and http. There is an alternative to ads if we can make it work.
Great concept.
CPU, bandwidth, electricity, it's all just energy. And to a significant degree, money is just energy stored. I generate energy with my own work, store it in the form of money, and then transfer that energy to someone else, maybe to heat my home or cook me a meal.
Before money, I had to barter for those things. Maybe conceptually the internet is in a similar state at the moment. It doesn't have 'money'. Why can't I put CPUs in my wallet and then spend them? And why can't I charge visitors to my site by the CPUs they are costing me?
Instead, I have to, in a way, barter. For example, maybe I use ad revenue to earn my income, so I generate all this content, I barter that to the search engines, which barter with the advertisers, which barter with me, and I barter back to security guards to protect me from 'bad' actor bots. I'd really just like to receive CPU and bandwidth payments from them.