Earlier this month, we announced the Grant For The Web x DEV Hackathon to help drive community experimentation around Web Monetization.
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Wow amazing! It's nice to see the web slowly move away from privacy sucking advertising and towards a more privacy focused and intuitive way of paying for content. I love that Dev/Coil is at the forefront of this
Its just the old subscription model update with more modern terminology. It's all about the producer not the consumer. I would like to see a similar model applied to newspapers combined with advertising (ie you pay or you accept adverts) because that may allow improvements in the quality of journalism, but I don't see it happening here. Most of what I have read here seems to be junior coders trying to big themselves up when what they write is mediocre at best.
I'm particularly excited about the healthy crossover this can foster for people using LinkedIn (your friendly social behemoth, a wholly owned sub$idiary of Microsoft) and dev.to simultaneously.
As a social media skeptic, I begrudgingly returned to LinkedIn to pursue work. It's hard to beat the effort/reward payout on that site if you're looking for visibility.
As a technician, I feel like I can enjoy dev.to more directly. The community is more tight-knit, the site isn't trying to appeal to every profession in the universe, and if I want to, I can spend time scrutinizing the source. Not to mention the fact that there's an enormous amount of good content that isn't constantly interrupted by worthless ads - - far better than what LinkedIn currently offers, IMO.
This grant helps bring a little bit more of that healthy sales mindset to a site I really feel at home on. Great work!
I'm very excited about this! Thank you and good luck to everyone involved in the hackathon.
What a wonderful step to support creators! 🎉
Incredible step forward Dev community! Welcome to Web3, Blockchain world! Streaming micro payments is one of the most important inventions of the last few years to hopefully shift value from advertisement companies back to content creators and consumers, users. If anyone wants to learn blockchain development I am building a free newsletter 200+ devs strong and growing: web3.coach
Btw, for those who wonder if it works - I made my first $0.05 since I set this up (roughly a week ago). Sure, 5 cents can't get me anything, but this is a very good start. Keep it up!
I made £0.02 in the last two months! It just arrived today! And they took £0.01 in commission!
THE FUTURE IS NOW.
How did you set it up? I am not seeing an option in my settings to add the pointer. ;(
I want to know if it is based on a certain browser or country since I want to set them up as well but I'm afraid they may not supported yet
Anyone else from NYC and noticed this message from Uphold during registration? Did you go through with the process or did you bail?
Micro royalties helped a lot flourishing indie music creation against mainstream ad based publishing. I hope this also boosts the number and variety of voices heard around the web. I suppose this is very important nowadays where web is getting less open with less memory thanks to non-crawlable closed social networks becoming dominant over open forums.
Amazing work!
Maybe 6 months ago, asked Ben in the chat if there were any plans of introducing some way of monetizing the content on dev in a way that could benefit the writers while still having a good experience for the readers (Unlike Medium for example) and the response was a "Yes!". That´s also how I got to know Coil.
And now here it is. Faster than I anticipated!!
Of course, it´s a long way to go until it becomes a viable income source for creators but I really love the idea behind the Web Monetization standard and paying creators by just using the Web Browser.
It´s nice to see platforms like Coil, Dev, Twitch, and Youtube leading the way.
Would love to see this implemented in GitHub, so you would gain money when someone visits your repos. The possibilities are endless.
I'm super excited about this. I believe that it will bring better content as there is more reward for doing such.
I was about to mention Flattr. Perhaps such examples cannot exceed some certain threshold (of user base) unless they become native part of the platform as in music streaming or say Apple arcade. Web monetization sounds promising closing such gap.
Fantastic! Great addition to the platform folks!
So excited!! 🎉🎉
This is so cool, I've already added the meta tag to most of my sites today.
🎉 Great work DEV making so much progress focusing on content creators.
If you're finding this article after 2023, I bear some bad news. Coil is defunct, and the payment pointer setting has been removed. That is all, thanks.
dev.to/bytehala/2024-update-on-dev...
Awesome to start with
I'm definitely curious to see how it works and what changes it will bring to the content creation world! ✨
Really cool initiative 👏
UpHold is blocked in my region. Are there any other alternatives?
Didn't he mention the other options here?
Oh, right. Didn't noticed it properly. Thanks for pointing out!
You are most welcome. 😁
I can finally quit my job and become a full-time writer on dev.to?
Do you have anything useful to say? Do you have the experience to supply quality articles that will benefit peopel enough to pay?
Translation: You will maybe get micropayments from people using the Puma browser (<0.01% market share). Let's manage expectations.
If you subscribe to Coil there's also a Coil browser extension for chrome / firefox etc.
I think this whole thing is really cool! Finally a relatively actionable and concrete example of this whole crypto / micropayment / electronic payment stuff that is more often times than not, in the end, just fluff.
I know the answer to this is going to be an obvious one, but can anyone sign up for this?
Sounds similar like Brave Rewards
Does anyone know the best practice in regards to gdpr, especially in eu when using the pointer meta tag?
Do we need to
a) inform user like we do with Google AdSense?
b) let them opt out?
My Uphold account seems to have several currencies. I can generate an "Interledger Payment Pointer" for any of them. Should I do it for USD?
Yes, if that's your preferred currency.
I can't see any such pointer option in my settings
You can find the pointer option at:
Settings -> Extensions -> Web monetization
Is there an update to this, now that Coil isn't being supported anymore.
nice
I have learnt something new from this post! Will write about it on my Community Software blog.
@peter
Is there any other wallet other than uphold or gatehub? My uphold got banned qithout a reason and i dont knwo what to do at this point Thanks