This is very interesting. A way to do micro-payments to get content over the web using the existing but rarely used HTTP 402 status code.

I wasn’t aware https://x402.org/ existed and is stable to use. I’m wondering though what the impact on performance will be if a payment needs to be processed for every request.

It will be interesting to see how this changes the economics of the web. Advertising revenue and hits are down since search engines use AI summaries to show contents without a user needing to visit the original site.

Content producers don’t necessarily need monthly/yearly subscription paywalls but instead can have a small payment per page of content.

It would be interesting if a “Requested Donation” could be deployed for sites like Wikipedia where users can control if they want to make a donation when downloading content.