2019/Austin/dolladollabillz

 Micropayments  was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2019.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/dolladollabillz

IndieWebCamp Austin 2019 Session: Micropayments When: 2019-02-23 14:50

Participants

 * (session facilitator)
 * [looks like remote fail]

Payment Methods

 * indiepay.me
 * Requires trust/a small community
 * Exchanges (e.g. blockchain) requires more trust than is typically warranted
 * Patreon and XOXO
 * Requires trust of Patreon as payment provider
 * Helps complicated reconciliation, such as A owes $5 to B, B owes $5 to C, therefore A should pay $5 to C and B requires no action
 * Kickstarter
 * PayPal/Venmo
 * Bitcoin/Litecoin/whatevercoin/etc
 * Brave Browser & BAT

Paying for Existing Content

 * PayPal for PDF ebook sales
 * Brave/BAT set up but not actively used
 * Brave/BAT set up but not actively used

Pledging for New Content

 * via Patreon

General Sponsorship/Donations

 * PayPal donation button
 * Amazon wishlist
 * https://aaronparecki.com/tip/ - accepts donations via a few payment methods
 * https://aaronparecki.com/tip/ - accepts donations via a few payment methods
 * https://aaronparecki.com/tip/ - accepts donations via a few payment methods

Shared Debt Ledger

 * created a website to track debt between roommates in college
 * if A owes B, and B owes C, then that can transfer to A owes C
 * only works because everyone trusts each other to reconcile at the end of the month
 * only works because everyone trusts each other to reconcile at the end of the month

How do you decide what to charge for or accept donations

 * because I have a full time job, I don't *need* to make money from the other efforts like indieweb apps, so I am happy to just accept donations for them
 * if I didn't have a job, I would look for ways to actually charge for some of them in some way
 * if I didn't have a job, I would look for ways to actually charge for some of them in some way

Web Payments

 * API to collect credit card information
 * https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/
 * https://indieweb.org/payment