It reminds me of writing SMS messages - using all the awful txt spk to use as few characters as possible and save money.
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#22It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
I have the same feeling.
With only 300 bucks we can make this guy lose 10K :D
( $10.000 / ( 0.3 + ( 0.029 * 0.01$ ) ) * 0.01 = $333,01
We would need a javascript script that would make 33301 payments of 1 cent.
This would be a very cost efficient attack between business rivals.
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#23should have used Lightning Network
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#24Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a leaderboard you'd pay your way into. Whatever you pay, that's your score. Today, I'm launching a new social experiment. A chatroom where you pay for every message you send. Normally chatrooms can get messy quick, because there's no cost to send…
I see a following potential issue: when it becomes popular, company advertising product is much more likely to spend $1 than the average user. Interestingly enough that should hold true regardless of the price (assuming popularity, and very low risk that this is all just generated by a single person). Because users who spend more money are a more valuable target.
Thing is, if it becomes more popular it becomes more spammed by ads and thus decrease in popularity, resulting it becoming less desirable to advertise on. Definitely an interesting social experiment, as well as a great cash grab. I'd love to see some data on the relationship between advertisement frequency and user-ship.
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#25Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.
The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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#26Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a leaderboard you'd pay your way into. Whatever you pay, that's your score. Today, I'm launching a new social experiment. A chatroom where you pay for every message you send. Normally chatrooms can get messy quick, because there's no cost to send…
What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?
If the money was donated this would just make this an alternative way to donate money to charity, the creator pocketing the money is necessary for this to be a social experiment.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That screams blockchain, doesn't it? ;-)
Does it? I thought even bitcoin had transaction fees.
Sender pays them for the most part. You can get the receiver to pay, but its unusual and dependable on the receiver actively choosing to pay, so they can simply set a threshold
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#30This could make for an interesting idea for 'Quora for mentors', whereby someone pays money (maybe more than 1c) to ask a specific question to a 'business leader'.