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Here's one cryptocurrency PoC on micropayments: https://web3torrent.statechannels.org/

More directly to your point, I think lots of people have made attempts at micropayment protocols. The difficulty is psychological rather than technical - the cumulative mental burden of repeatedly deciding whether to part with a tenth of a cent "costs" much more than value being exchanged.




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