Implement web-monetization/payment pointer #6345
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Hey @benhalpern, since this hasn't been active for a while and has a bunch of conflicts I am going to close this PR. Feel free to resolve them and reopen if you want to get it pushed through! |
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| <!-- Expermiental web monetization payment pointer for micropayments --> | ||
| <!-- It lets readers make micropayments to websites they visit. --> | ||
| <!-- This is step 1: Get live in production to test for platform-wide payment pointer. --> | ||
| <!-- Step 2: Allow authors to set their payment pointer so they can directly monetize their content based on visitors. --> | ||
| <!-- Step 3: Enable further functionality based on what we learn from this experimentation and how the ecosystem evolves. --> | ||
| <!-- Step 3: Enable further functionality based on what we learn from this experimentation and how the ecosystem evolves. --> |
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Shouldn't this be behind <%# %> instead of HTML comment so it's won't show up in our markup?
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FWIW I found it helpful when I was inspecting to see what it would take to add monetization to my own website 🙃
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This is the first step in implementing web monetization.
Web monetization is a protocol which allows websites to accept micro-payments to any page with the payment pointer meta tag. It's not yet standard, but through Grant for the Web, there will be lots of experimentation with this and we're getting involved ourselves.
For anyone that does not have a payment-enabled browser (or browser extension for now), this is just a meta tag that doesn't do anything at all. For anyone that does have payments activated, they'll start streaming tiny amounts of payment into our wallet.
This is the first step just to experiment for the site, but if it's all technically straightforward, we'll soon be adding the ability for authors to plop their payment pointers onto their content to get paid directly with no intervention from us.
This is all lightweight experimentation from us. As you can see from the size of this PR, it's not a huge technical commitment on our part, but if the ecosystem takes off, it will be fun to see what we might do. We'll definitely be following projects like this.
For other live communities looking to implement a payment pointer, you'll first need to set up a wallet to receive payments. More information is available here. Get in touch with us if you're curious about how you might leverage this on your platform in the future.