What if every time someone visited a website, that site’s owner could make a small amount of money? — What if every time someone visited a website, that site’s owner could make a small amount of money? With just a few lines of simple code, you could monetize just about any content online, so that each visit to a page would result in a small payment directly to you. …

Browsers are the lens through which we see the web. And considering how much the content of the web has changed over the past few decades —… — Browsers are the lens through which we see the web. …

Grant for the Web — Feedback from Creators One Year In — Grant for the Web — Feedback from Creators One Year In If you haven’t heard about Grant for the Web yet, you should! GftW is a fund housed at the Interledger Foundation to drive innovation in Web Monetization and Open Payments. …

Unlock Grantee Austin Robey recently concocted one of the most practical applications of NFTs I’ve seen using Unlock’s protocol: Meeting… — Dinner DAO: How to Have Your NFTs & Eat Them Too! Unlock Grantee Austin Robey recently concocted one of the most practical applications of NFTs I’ve seen using Unlock’s protocol: Meeting IRL over a great meal. Inspired by the logic and tooling of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), Austin’s Dinner DAO…

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Unlock as a strategic advisor! Unlock is an open source, Ethereum-based protocol which empowers… — I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Unlock as a strategic advisor! Unlock is an open source, Ethereum-based protocol which empowers creators of all kinds to monetize their content and create membership benefits for their communities through membership NFTs.

As the web enters its fourth decade, its future seems less predictable than ever. Will it continue on its current path? Or change course… — As the web enters its fourth decade, its future seems less predictable than ever. Will it continue on its current path? Or change course completely? The concept of micropayments is one of the earliest web-related ideas. As far back as the 60s, Ted Nelson was using the term to describe…

30 years into the web’s history, micropayments still aren’t a part of our daily lives. It’s one of the great unsolved mysteries — why… — 30 years into the web’s history, micropayments still aren’t a part of our daily lives. It’s one of the great unsolved mysteries — why didn’t this promising system take off, and who, if anyone, is responsible for its early demise? As the world wide web soared in the 1990s, many of the systems envisioned by its early architects saw rapid development. But micropayments, which had once been described as an essential nutrient for any web system, seemed to be dead in the water.

There’s a good chance that this decade will be remembered as the start of the decentralized age of computing. — There’s a good chance that this decade will be remembered as the start of the decentralized age of computing. Blockchains are already being applied to hundreds of new decentralized apps, protocols, and systems meant to replace existing monetary systems. New technologies like decentralized finance and cryptocurrencies are experiencing tectonic shifts…