It says in part:
"To read the peace (sic) you have to pay 0.0015 BTC. You don’t need to subscribe to anything, you just have to pay and download the pdf."
Interesting idea, but I haven't pursued it. Any big spenders around - about sixty cents in fiat?
Thank you for the comment. I am german and wrote the introduction on the blog (sorry for my bad english-skills). The text itself is from a chinese and I gave it to an english writer to lectorize it. So three people worked several hours to produce this, what was the cause I decided to let the reader pay. It is an experiment.
First thing I learned: Despite several services claim to let you sell content online without fees I have to pay. I tried coinlock, which claims to charge 10 percent fee and has a clean and easy design, but the file has never been uploaded. Than I tried sell-digital from okitoo, which says it charges zero fees, but the price was shown in dollar and there was no adress shown and the qr-code didn't work. Alternatives have been bitbounce (20 cent + 4,9 percent), biturl (didn't understand how this even works) and one more which name I forgot cause it was very troublesome in the registration and also had high fees. Best option was satoshibox. They say they claim zero fees but only the transaction fee for the bitcoin-network. Unfortunately they use 0.0005 for it. My original plan to sell the article for 0.001 btc would mean then that satoshibox receives the half of our income. This was the reason I raised the price to 0.0015. If anybody has a better idea which service to use I would be happy.
Second thing I learned: I used bitcoin to let readers pay for a single article and to payout a chinese author. This alone is what most people in the bitcoin-universe want publishers to do. On top of it I published an article about china, which sums up from a native chinese the situation of the exchanges and explains how to interprete this from a chinese cultural perspective. I thought it should be very welcomed. But nobody said "great". Most people seem to be not interested and some complain about the price. Are 66 cent to much? How much would you pay?
