I remember reading about this the other week, I thought it had already passed though. I'll be watching with a cloes eye tomorrow to see how it plays out, very interesting indeed. I'll probably view some stuff with bitcoin as well to support it. If this goes well it could really open the eyes of others in the media industry and the benefits bitcoin brings to microtransactions.
It's true that a lot of newspapers/magazines have had a hard time making money online. Either needing to try to make money off ads which doesn't always work or to charge people for their entire service which often times people find to be too expensive. Being able to charge people pennies or less to view their content has great potential IMO.
Try to help out and view some articles with bitcoin tomorrow!
Topic: Chicago Sun-Times Bitcoin Experiment (NOW OVER) - page 2. (Read 1816 times)
I'm thinking that it's so cheap, that we all might as well pay the 3 cents! LOL 
Imagine if they got 10,000 bitcoin readers! The news would go viral!!
Imagine if they got 10,000 bitcoin readers! The news would go viral!!
Sounds like a plan
It seems it's not a really paywall, but rather a "donation box" to see if people pay a few pennies: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/237981/sun-times-to-test-bitcoin-paywall-thats-really-just-an-optional-donation-box/
It is now Saturday in Chicago, and I can't see any way to contribute...
It is now Saturday in Chicago, and I can't see any way to contribute...
I'm thinking that it's so cheap, that we all might as well pay the 3 cents! LOL
Imagine if they got 10,000 bitcoin readers! The news would go viral!!
Imagine if they got 10,000 bitcoin readers! The news would go viral!!
I'm down, I'll throw a few cents at this tomorrow.
Lets get this thread seen so more people take part... you gotta change the title to something banana shit crazy thast going to make everyone take a look.
Good luck!
I'm thinking that it's so cheap, that we all might as well pay the 3 cents! LOL
Imagine if they got 10,000 bitcoin readers! The news would go viral!!
Imagine if they got 10,000 bitcoin readers! The news would go viral!!
I read about it an hour or two ago. Seems like a nice idea, I don't know if the Chicago Sun Times is the right platform to try it on, but you never know.
UPDATE: The Chicaga Sun-Times is the 9th largest newspaper in the US (circulation = 470,000). Today and only today they are conducting an experiment with the bitcoin startup "BitWalls" paywall service.
***Please donate 25 cents (or more!!) to show your support for bitcoin and the concept of micropayments!***
This will be a story in the MSM. Would you rather the story read "there was little interest in bitcoin micro-payments" or would you rather it read "10,000 people donated using bitcoin--Bitcoin-based micro-paywalls may resuscitate the dying newspaper industry!"
As a pre-emptive strike against the "8-cent-miner's-fee-for-a-25-cent-payment" argument--BitWalls uses Coinbase and if you pay using a Coinbase wallet, there is zero transaction fee. Anyone can very easily set-up a Coinbase wallet and then fund it with your regular bitcoin client/wallet.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Go to http://www.suntimes.com.
2. You should see a pop-up that looks like this (you may have to click/scroll around for a bit--if not, reset your browser):
3. Click "donate bitcoin: $0.25"
4. You should see a new pop-up that looks like this:
5. Pay the requested amount (if you use Coinbase you will not be charged a miner's fee, as the receiving address is also Coinbase--pretty slick I think).
ORIGINAL POST: I just found this article: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/31/read-all-about-it-sun-times-experiments-with-bitcoin-paywall-on-saturday/
It says that the Chicago Sun-Times is conducting a 24 hr experiment tomorrow with bitcoin payments to bypass their paywall. This seems interesting, and a good application for bitcoin micro-payments, but I question how well it will work if only "tested" for 24 hours.
Has anyone heard anything about this?
EDIT: $0.03 for 24 hr pass and $0.01 for a single article. They're also talking about this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wozjt/suntimes_experiments_with_bitcoin_paywall_on/
***Please donate 25 cents (or more!!) to show your support for bitcoin and the concept of micropayments!***
This will be a story in the MSM. Would you rather the story read "there was little interest in bitcoin micro-payments" or would you rather it read "10,000 people donated using bitcoin--Bitcoin-based micro-paywalls may resuscitate the dying newspaper industry!"
As a pre-emptive strike against the "8-cent-miner's-fee-for-a-25-cent-payment" argument--BitWalls uses Coinbase and if you pay using a Coinbase wallet, there is zero transaction fee. Anyone can very easily set-up a Coinbase wallet and then fund it with your regular bitcoin client/wallet.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Go to http://www.suntimes.com.
2. You should see a pop-up that looks like this (you may have to click/scroll around for a bit--if not, reset your browser):
3. Click "donate bitcoin: $0.25"
4. You should see a new pop-up that looks like this:
5. Pay the requested amount (if you use Coinbase you will not be charged a miner's fee, as the receiving address is also Coinbase--pretty slick I think).
ORIGINAL POST: I just found this article: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/31/read-all-about-it-sun-times-experiments-with-bitcoin-paywall-on-saturday/
It says that the Chicago Sun-Times is conducting a 24 hr experiment tomorrow with bitcoin payments to bypass their paywall. This seems interesting, and a good application for bitcoin micro-payments, but I question how well it will work if only "tested" for 24 hours.
Has anyone heard anything about this?
EDIT: $0.03 for 24 hr pass and $0.01 for a single article. They're also talking about this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wozjt/suntimes_experiments_with_bitcoin_paywall_on/
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