Laybit have created an interesting system where users can micro donate, and if they have javascript disabled it will fallback to Bitcoin URI links.
At Laybit people are able to make “pretty” image links, and tip content owners via them. They can even make QR-code so they can tip content owners in the real world. A nice concept worth keeping your eye on.
I’m baffled as to how it took so long for such a project to come along.
Tho I suppose this could be said more broadly of Bitcoin as well.
Hi. Being a non-techie my interest in Bitcoin is purely from a monetary and end-user point of view and, as such, I see an application along these lines as being well overdue (although it is still some way from being the finished article). For any sort of adoption by the masses then simple things such as hidden Bitcoin addresses are a no-brainer. More importantly, until a real system of trust has evolved, the idea that the exchange of goods involving the digit to the left of Bitcoin’s decimal point is slightly deluded.
As we know, with such a lack of trust, the priority for Bitcoin owners, at present, is to keep them safe and so the number one issue for Bitcoin is velocity. This needs to begin at the 8th decimal place which is why a very simple and user friendly micro-donation system is so important. But even Laybit, as it stands, would alienate the majority of Bitcoin first-timers.
The old world media, once perceived as the mouthpiece of an objective truth that people were prepared to pay for in micro-cash payments, is in terminal decline and, being owned by the perpetrators of our current monetary system, would be the last to legitimise a decentralised currency.
The “truth” is now currently provided in large part for free in the blogsphere so this is surely the perfect arena to get Bitcoins moving even if it’s 0.00000001 bitcoin at a time. I used to happily hand over £1 every day for my newspaper and I’d happily set up a “standing order” to donate a few “Bitcents” a month to reward my favourite bloggers for their labour, especially as I’d only have to “risk” placing a very small number of coins in the hands of an, as yet, untrusted payment system. Over time the new market price for “the truth” would be established whilst helping to evolve the system of trust in the new currency in which it is being paid for. Advertisiers looking for eyeballs will only help to endorse the new currency when placing ads on those sites and the trickle-up effect can begin.
I’ll be watching further develpments in this area very closely.