10 BTS / 0.0001485 BTC / 0.006232 ETH = 200,000 SOLCERTS available in this Tier
Okay. As per your Medium page, which
gives the minimum at 1000 but recommends 5000...
We are operating on a First Come First SERVED basis. The hard minimum amount to purchase is 1000 SOLCERTs. And only in increments of 1000. The recommended minimum is 5000 (get some skin in the game). Send your cryptos to the above addresses.
...I sent in 0.297 BTC to address 12MsrWqBFGt3g4NSciXGW56KLbh35Jm99w for 2000 Solcerts. Tx ID:
f84ae9ac49a28e3acc68d802f5df3c7620b38935205327f977699426e254e211.
As per your instrux, I set up an account at OpenLedger and sent a PM to CCEDKaps with the above info.
So I'm not in for much, but I'm in.
CCEDKaps is active and was helpful in sending me my SOLCERTS during original presale. Glad to have you on board!
Thanks.
Actually, the concept fascinates me. As some of us know, "micropayments for content" [eg., paying $0.05 for a single article] is like the development of artificial intelligence. AI's been worked on since the early 1960s! And each year, it seems, we're on the verge of getting it licked. "Next year...next year...next year..." and so on.
But AI is slowly getting licked, and so is the micropayment option for content. Slowly, but it's getting there.
The trouble with micropayments for short-length (written) content, I think, is because paying for it violates the economically-unsound but common-sensical rule: "The more you put into something, the more it's worth." This relationship explains why we willingly shell out several dollars for a full-length book but rebel at shelling out several cents for an article of comparable quality. In the case of a book, its length convinces us to shell out the $$$ for two reasons:
1) We see, through its length, that the author(s) put a lot of work into it.
2) And, (1) is reflected by the large amount of time we need to
read it. We either get a long stretch of enjoyment (if we're reading for pleasure) or a long stretch of learning (if we bought the book as a learning tool.) But either way, the long time that we spend with it makes "real" the fact that the author(s) put a lot of time into producing it.
But with an article that takes only minutes to read and/or digest, it seems to us that the author didn't spend that much time on it. So we rebel at paying even a small amount. Add to that the fact that there seem to be zillions of writers who are willing to upload their content for free, and you've got a "we're on the verge of..." moving time-target like the ones that have plagued both AI and fusion power.
On the
enjoyment side, the only writer who could make a go of it is an already-established bankable writer or a newcomer that's destined to become one. If Perez Hilton attached a micropayment system to his blog, he could certainly bull the model through.
The same thing goes for a now-unknown blogger that's going to become as hot as Perez Hilton has become...provided that said blogger sticks to the micropayment channel and doesn't "trade up."
On the
use-value side, the most obvious proof-of-concept would be financial news. That's the sector of "useful writing" that's most used to the freemium model. In cases of time-sensitive info, something as straightforward as having first crack at it is enough to make it premium content. That's why, whenever you read an article on Bloomberg's Website, you see a little notice telling you that subscribers to Bloomberg Terminal saw it before you did.
In a controlled monopolistic market like stock-market trading data, the "pay to be early" option works too. Case in point: a venerable Canadian stock-market Website, Stockwatch, charges two cents for a real-time quote. By agreement with the exchanges and backed by law, all data providers are expected to provide Canadian stock-markets with a fifteen-minute delay. If you want real-time quotes as a regular information consumer, those agreements and law oblige the provider to charge you twenty-five bucks a month and pass along the proceeds to the exchange. I don't know how Stockwatch got around this, but they will give you a single real-time quote for two pennies.
But aside form time-sensitive info, premium content is something deemed professional or guru-like. Like, buying a copy of a professional-quality research report on a stock (useful for folks who use deep-discount brokerages) or paying a buck to see the latest advice of a hot-shot stockpicker. But again, only "stars" or - would-be stars who have a serious shot at real stardom - have enough prestige (if you will) to make their content seem worth paying for on a micro-transaction basis. If you're not a hot-shot, you'll just look like someone who's soliciting pennies for content that's apparently more-or-less the same as blog posts and articles that are offered for free.
So it's a tough nut to crack. But Solomon has a real enthusiasm in addition to his vision, so he might be the fellow to crack it. We'll see.
