Read_879 - The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

What if the true barrier to a world of seamless micropayments
isn’t technological, but psychological? In this episode of
Bitcoin Audible, we revisit Nick Szabo’s classic essay, “The
Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments,” exploring why even
with lightning-fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions, the smallest
payments might never take off as expected. Can new monetization
models, AI agents, and value-for-value systems overcome the
hidden costs in our minds-or will human cognition always set the
lower bound on how small a transaction can be? Dive in as we
unpack the unseen limits shaping the future of digital payments
and online commerce.

Check out the original article: The Mental Accounting
Barrier to Micropayments by Nick Szabo (Link:
https://tinyurl.com/8r5cewhc)



Mentioned Links & Resources


Read_526 - Check Your Financial Privilege [Alex Gladstein]
(Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7697t68)

Ai Read_008 - From AGI to Superintelligence (Leopold Ashen
Brenner) (Link: https://tinyurl.com/47fy87ax)

Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
(Link: https://tinyurl.com/3daf6unm)



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