{"id":348140,"date":"2025-09-16T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/why-micropayments-the-internet-was-meant-to-provide-value-to-users-not-spy-on-them\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:07:33","slug":"why-micropayments-the-internet-was-meant-to-provide-value-to-users-not-spy-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/why-micropayments-the-internet-was-meant-to-provide-value-to-users-not-spy-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Micropayments? The Internet Was Meant To Provide Value To Users, Not Spy On Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_61\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>This is the first in a 10-episode video series focusing on Bitcoin privacy, filmed at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/industry-events\/bitcoin-privacy-focused-technical-conference-ahead-of-baltic-honeybadger-in-riga\">bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga<\/a>\u00a0and elsewhere. Each episode will touch on some aspect of Bitcoin privacy, tools to use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/what-is-bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a>\u00a0privately or surveillance techniques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nitro-lazy\">Privacy is heads, censorship resistance is tails. They\u2019re two sides of the same coin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everything people do together is inherently interactive. When those interactions cannot be conducted privately, when they become common public knowledge, the participants can be subjected to external pressure. They can be shunned, shamed, jailed or penalized in many other ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without privacy, you have no\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/why-is-bitcoin-censorship-resistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censorship resistance<\/a>. Without privacy, most people will censor themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this second episode, I sit down with Calle, the creator the Cashu ecash protocol, to discuss the loss of privacy on the modern internet. In an era where large internet platforms are accessible for free, the real cost of these platform is paid for by sacrificing your privacy in the name of advertising revenue. <\/p>\n<p>This economic model of the internet is a wild departure from the original vision of users paying for accessing to resources. The \u201c402 Payment Required\u201d error message was a part of the HTTP protocol from the very start. <\/p>\n<p>We discuss how Cashu as a vehicle for bitcoin micropayments offers a chance to turn things around, and build the privacy respecting internet the early designs of the world wide web envisioned to begin with. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the talk below: <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is the second video in the Privacy Series. In this episode I sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callebtc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@callebtc<\/a> to discuss his work on Cashu, and how Bitcoin can be used as a tool to claw back privacy on the modern internet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iXX08rtjse\">pic.twitter.com\/iXX08rtjse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shinobi (@brian_trollz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_trollz\/status\/1966561441290321987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><template data-nitro-marker-id=\"372de9843891598aa58675a785cc4349-1\"\/> <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/why-micropayments-the-internet-was-meant-to-provide-value-to-users-not-spy-on-them\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This is the first in a 10-episode video series focusing on Bitcoin privacy, filmed at\u00a0bitcoin++ Privacy Edition in Riga\u00a0and elsewhere. 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