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Micropayments
One impediment to electronic commerce is the inability to pay small amounts for an item.
For example, you might be willing to pay a penny to read an article, or 10 cents to watch a video
Standard payment mechanisms can’t handle this
The transaction costs are larger than the amount being exchanged!
A mechanism is needed to allow people to pay small amounts of money for an item
Potential markets for micropayments include:
Songs
Articles
Images
Comic Strips
Stock Quotes
Book pages
Games
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早在1996年,Micropayments的先锋之一，CyberCash Inc,主打产品电子钱包（用户下载客户端用于加密信用卡号码）和cybercoin（用户和商户通过cyber coin服务器支付和交换解码）,就上市了，股价当日上升79%，一度达到60几块。1999年股价落到10几块，2000年CyberCash没能通过千年虫。2001年破产，被verisign买了。