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It's too bad how one of the interesting promises of crypto currencies was to facilitate micropayments. That clearly hasn't been delivered in any sensible form yet.



You can use crypto to pay eg. notable VPN providers, or to make all sorts of donations, but one of the issues facing crypto for a service like this is that you can't automate monthly payments (at least, not in a standardized and broadly compatible way). You always need to pay a regular invoice, pre-pay for a long period, or (in the best case) regularly top off a custodial wallet that cooperates with registered services and protégés on your behalf (eg. via some standardized smart-contract that hasn't been widely adopted yet). Stripe can just store your info and bill you monthly, but no one hands over their crypo wallet seed in the same way.




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