Are we finally solving micro transactions on the web?

I've previously written about how I believe the open web is dying. Maybe one solution to prevent it, and to save anonymity on the web is to finally fix the micro-payment that no-one ever solved. Disclaimer: I started developing during the Web 1.0 age (a.k.a. dotCom era) and substantially improved my engineering skills during the Web 2.0 movement. I completely skipped all the Web 3.0 craze (unless you count the original Web 3.0 — the Semantic Web) not necessarily because of technical limitations, but because of the community around it. Now that everyone moved to AI, I think we can look at blockchain again, with more sober eyes. Agents have the potential multiply the web traffic by a thousand fold or more. As an early example in software engineering (the early adopters of autonomous AIs), git traffic has increased in Github and at Anthropic and OpenAI so much they all needed new infrastructure to handle this increased load. The same is happening all across the industry. As agents become…

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