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Title: Microtransaction industry moving forward Post by: Stephen Gornick on March 29, 2011, 04:11:53 AM A couple examples of microtransaction-based services:
Torrent Traveler: You upload a torrent file and Torrent traveler will retrieve the download for you. When the torrent download has completed, you then can pay $0.25 (per GB) to retrieve the download over the web: http://torrenttraveler.com/avpzaqvbpxgz4rukk3cgqoxvf (http://torrenttraveler.com/avpzaqvbpxgz4rukk3cgqoxvf) Here's an ebook, where chapters are sold individually, $0.25 USD each: http://project7alpha.com/2011/03/chapter-1/ (http://project7alpha.com/2011/03/chapter-1/) Minno allows buyers to top up a wallet balance by charging to a credit card: https://www.minno.co/account#buy-credit (https://www.minno.co/account#buy-credit) Minno is in closed beta right now but was featured on Tech Crunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/minno-hopes-theres-a-place-in-this-world-for-a-small-simple-e-wallet (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/minno-hopes-theres-a-place-in-this-world-for-a-small-simple-e-wallet) Bitcoin already has two bitcoin-powered download services http://Ubitio.us.com (http://Ubitio.us.com) and http://BitcoinService.co.uk (http://BitcoinService.co.uk) and shopping cart interfaces http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Shopping_Cart_Interfaces (http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Shopping_Cart_Interfaces) to compete against minno, however the differences include: - immediacy (There's no waiting for a block or two to confirm on minno before releasing the goods) - slick API / integration There's no reason Minno couldn't accept bitcoins as a "funding" method. There's really no reason why Torrent Traveler can't use using bitcoins directly. PayPal competes with their PayPal/X microtransaction payment platform It is great to see attention brought to microtransactions and the virtual goods industry. It will be interesting to see where Bitcoins fits in these areas. Title: Re: Microtransaction industry moving forward Post by: casascius on March 29, 2011, 05:53:38 AM A couple examples of microtransaction-based services: Torrent Traveler: You upload a torrent file and Torrent traveler will retrieve the download for you. When the torrent download has completed, you then can pay $0.25 (per GB) to retrieve the download over the web: http://torrenttraveler.com/avpzaqvbpxgz4rukk3cgqoxvf (http://torrenttraveler.com/avpzaqvbpxgz4rukk3cgqoxvf) This is a service I would probably pay for today - especially if the downloaded torrents could just be mailed to me on DVD-R. Some of us don't have the bandwidth to spare - or our usage is metered in such a way that it would cost more than $0.25/GB just to download whatever it was. Title: Re: Microtransaction industry moving forward Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 04, 2011, 07:56:19 PM #1 on Hacker News right now is a new microtransaction link sharing service GumRoad:
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614 Of course, Bitcoin is already there: - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Virtual_goods Title: Re: Microtransaction industry moving forward Post by: MoonShadow on April 04, 2011, 10:53:33 PM A couple examples of microtransaction-based services: Torrent Traveler: You upload a torrent file and Torrent traveler will retrieve the download for you. When the torrent download has completed, you then can pay $0.25 (per GB) to retrieve the download over the web: http://torrenttraveler.com/avpzaqvbpxgz4rukk3cgqoxvf (http://torrenttraveler.com/avpzaqvbpxgz4rukk3cgqoxvf) This is a service I would probably pay for today - especially if the downloaded torrents could just be mailed to me on DVD-R. Some of us don't have the bandwidth to spare - or our usage is metered in such a way that it would cost more than $0.25/GB just to download whatever it was. DVD-R's are a pain in the ass. What about a mailable USB drive with return postage and an address label? I can see a usage based opp here for some teen with cheap bandwidth. |