THELOGICALINDIAN - A new Bitcoin Lightning app presents an absorbing booty on the paywall for accounting agreeable abstraction area users crowdfund abrading off one letter at a time
Scratch That Itch
Bangkok-based French developer, Guillaume Verbal, unleashed an absorbing booty on the ‘paywall for accounting content’ abstraction this week: a Bitcoin Lightning app area users crowdfund the acknowledge of a column by ‘scratching off’ one letter at a time.
Lightning Scratchcard brings a absolutely avant-garde aberration to the ‘content-paywall’ genre, accouterment a cast new way to earn some satoshis. The agreeable architect publishes a accounting allotment on the website, and sets a allotment ambition for it. This allotment ambition is again bisect by the cardinal of characters in the article, giving a per-letter price, which can be as low as 1 satoshi.
Would be readers again accomplish lightning payments to ‘scratch off’ one or added belletrist for everybody to see. The agreeable is absolutely appear already the allotment ambition is reached, and payments go to the biographer as belletrist are scratched. Patrons can accept to accept their name and cardinal of belletrist paid for displayed on the page.
Oh, and the aboriginal letter comes pre-revealed as a teaser.
Quite Content
As a cast new app, there is acutely a rather bound bulk of agreeable at present. However, this is already accepting absorption rapidly, decidedly a column featuring abbreviate jokes for a quick payoff.
Some creators accept already uploaded pieces of artistic writing, forth with a agglomeration of Bitcoin-related content, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper.
There are additionally a few clandestine keys and berry phrases for wallets absolute badge amounts of bitcoin. This is an absorbing use of the medium, and suggests a abeyant approaching ‘improvement’, whereby users can accept which appearance they ambition to scratch.
This would be of bound absorption for accounting articles, but for pieces with abeyant prizes, could abundantly access the incentive.
Meet and Eat
LightningScratchcard is Verbal’s aboriginal Lightning app, and his additional acquiescence in a year continued activity alleged Bitcoin1212. The activity is an experiment, whereby he affairs to barrage 12 Bitcoin startups in 12 months.
The aboriginal startup, which should address to abounding Bitcoin aficionados, is the Bitcoin Meat Club. The club, for hosting carnivore dinners accepting acquittal alone in bitcoin, is a nod to the meat-only diet trend, accepted in the Bitcoin community. The reasoning, as declared on the website:
It will be absorbing to see what abroad Verbal unveils over the abutting ten months.
Can such a account become accepted for online agreeable monetization? Share your thoughts below!
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