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NurdRage, a YouTube personality with over 600,000 subscribers, is testing bitcoin micropayments for his videos as an alternative to advertising. Show him some love!
 
Thank you.

That a Great News. If bitcoin is introduced in Youtube, it will be really great. I wonder how well response it will receive.

Good work !!!

Thanks for your support! Hopefully this will illuminate one of the great use cases for bitcoin…micropayments  8)

Yes, We should all support and encourge Bitcoins in Micro payment. Is a great great effort of yours.
I also want to be a part of it.
Good luck

Well its good to see new projects growing with bitcoin inside,and well its free of fees now as the sucess becomes bigger we will see fixed fee and well sucess i really hope it stands.

I doubt, if his earnings from Bitcoin will be higher than the advertisement income he will be receiving via YouTube. How does he manage instant

payments for content providers? { 0 confirmations or off-chain payments? } It would be a pity if you have to pay for Bitcoin related videos this early

in the game.  :( Adoption will not increase, if people have to pay for Bitcoin information.

In order for the micro payment to be successful, we need to increase the block size, otherwise, the fee is too high.

The earnings from his advertisments will always be higher but it can be a nice bonus for him if he collects like $5 to $10 per video. And it might make people interesting and maybe even search for information about Bitcoin. Every bit of help is good.

Good idea, but annoying that you have to use Coinbase specifically


I want to be paid directly to my personal wallet, not some data collecting infrastructure bullshit. I hope we can have LN soon so we can be paid directly to our wallets in a decentralized way.

Oh dear! So many video clips on youtube are rubbish, that I don't think I would be prepared to pay for any of them without watching them first. This payment system must knock the view count substantially, and surely that would push him down in the Youtube rankings.

I like the implementation! No BS, just scan, pay, then watch.
The cool thing is that I think something like this would even work on a TV. I would love a pay-per-view streaming service. No memberships or fuss, just pay and watch.  

Hmmm. yeah, not as good for the content producer. They really need to send it on to your wallet immediately. Perhaps this is to accommodate a fee of some kind?

:( is not a YouTube initiative but an user one.
I think there are a lot of other people that accept payment with bitcoin also on YT.
It could be positive because more people decide to adopt, and share with other people so!

yep, doing this via TV is a no brainer and alot easier than today.

This seems like a really nice and cool idea. $0.25 to pay to watch for a video is not too bad of a deal.

Originally, we built our platform on Mycelium and Hive…both open source wallets. That caused a lot of problems. For example, Hive stopped being developed. And, Mycelium Android works totally differently than Mycelium iOS (different dev teams). Every wallet out there works in their own unique way internally. It's impossible to support them all, so we went with the simple solution so we can focus on the actual media distribution platform rather than spending all our time troubleshooting bitcoin wallets.

The types of people who subscribe to youtube vids are younglings in the main. That's a generation accustomed to getting most of their media for free. I really can't see micropayments ever working in this type of scenario. Most are going to shop elsewhere.

That makes sense. Great work man!

Looks like a great concept but many youtube viewers are really young, most of them don't even know what bitcoin is.
Let alone know how it will work out, I doubt this type of thing will take off.

Let's talk in a year ;)

The question, what he will do with piracy?

https://twitter.com/nurdrage/status/65123863310237696

https://i.imgur.com/Vphl9A6.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/26et78/lets_tell_our_favorite_youtubers_to_put_their/chqfkf0


Here's their bitcoin wallet address used since June 29, 2014: 1NurdRAge7PNR4ULrbrpcYvc9RC4LDp9pS (https://www.walletexplorer.com/address/1NurdRAge7PNR4ULrbrpcYvc9RC4LDp9pS)

There are so many amateurs videos available for free, I doubt I'll ever pay to watch one. This could only work for real full length movies, but it's a nice idea. I'm sure it could work if they manage to get good content.

I guess it's good news but I find it comical that it's 2016 and a youtuber starts accepting Bitcoin and all of a sudden it's news worthy. It makes you wonder how unknown and unadopted Bitcoin really is, for most people it still is an obscure internet currency that hackers or people buying/selling illegal drugs use. It's sad but it's true and you can only blame Bitcoin.

We need the "young" to pick up on bitcoin and when they do it will grow.  The concept is great and it is a start to something you might see more of.

Cool idea attract also new video to his YouTube channel.

I find it comical that you replied upon reading only the OP as if there's a sig campaign in play. In case you missed it, the brand's been accepting bitcoins since 2011, about a month prior to myself learning about Bitcoin.

Yes, its a User initiative and once more people take such initiatives then it will be good.
Someone has to start and it good to see this.

Loading is slow. Even though I do not really like his video, I paid 0.25 USD worth of Bitcoin to unlock the video. I hope that he will continue to support Bitcoin.

Are you still hosting the videos on youtube or are you running it off your own servers? {I did not spot this in the FAQ section} I tried it, but I find it is

a bit slow... so I was just wondering where you hosting this service. I am all for innovation based on micro payments, but a big proponent of FREE

educational stuff on Bitcoin. If he turns all his subscribers to Bitcoin users, it will be a win for all of us.  ;) Good luck.

realyy!!  :o :o thanks fr posting ths news here :D

0.25$ for a video? I would rather pay for a month subscription rather than to pay for each video.
However, it's nice to see a progress on Bitcoin.

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It is a great idea of him, if all the big groups/company/channels start to use bitcoin as their payment then bitcoin will flourish all over the net. I appreciate that act from Nurdrage, it gave a good support to the bitcoin.
I hope all the online big businessmen use bitcoin.