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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.
Interesting language effects at play. There’s a message in there: “你好吗?” Which is priced at 4c The equivalent message in English “how are you?” Is 10c
你好吗 = 9 bytes
how are you = 11 bytes
I suppose the same kind of thing applies to the character limit on Twitter.
This 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'.
This is the one I know best and have used: https://clarity.fm/
It was great a few years ago for validation for a B2B product we wanted to sell and needed unbiased feedback on.
It's interesting that this favours pictographic languages. You can express a lot more in a few "characters" of Chinese than you can in English! Might be a little more fair if you charged per byte instead of per character, but they would still have a big advantage. I suppose the same kind of thing applies to the character limit on Twitter.
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Does it? I thought even bitcoin had transaction fees.
It was a joke. But you can use cryptocurrencies/blockchains to send messages, and you would use the proof of work to make sure the price is paid.
Is there a micropayment service he could have used, to avoid micropayments showing up on a bank statement? Do any such services event exist? Is this PCI compliant, since CC numbers are typed on his page?