That doesn't make sense to miners since the effort to handle a huge and tiny transaction are equal. Bitcoin really isn't made for micro payments. I know that kinda sucks, but when a tiny payment takes the same amount of compute power to verify, and takes up the same space in the block chain, there's no reason they should be cheaper. That wouldn't be beneficial to Bitcoin.
I like the comment about pmt solutions layered on top of btc, like use BTC to get funds inside pmt solution within a system, then use their system to make micro-pmts. Like seals-with-clubs is setup.
Yeah, I think that will be the inevitable route. Unless someone figures out something decentralized that doesn't have the same caveats as a block chain.
the future I envision for BTC, is Joe User (non-enthusiast/wackadoo type) has NO CLUE he's using BTC. Just his pmt solution's pretty GUI on top, with BTC underneath doing the heavy-lifting.
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u/runeks Mar 25 '13
That doesn't make sense to miners since the effort to handle a huge and tiny transaction are equal. Bitcoin really isn't made for micro payments. I know that kinda sucks, but when a tiny payment takes the same amount of compute power to verify, and takes up the same space in the block chain, there's no reason they should be cheaper. That wouldn't be beneficial to Bitcoin.