I can't imagine pay-walls ever really working. People have tried so long. Once you get access, you copy the content and re-post it somewhere else. People have already been trying the paywall concept with crypto for articles and porn; I suspect it hasn't proven the greatest.

Having software that makes payments without interaction is super dangerous. That already means it is unencrypted and ready to be drained with the slightest exploit or malware. These sort of hot wallets should only have small amounts of funds in them, and only briefly.

While I can relate to concerns about how people might leverage crypto to monetize the web, I think innovation in doing so is a very good thing. The scourge of advertisers and their embedded role of personal data collectors is the worst and needs to end.

I've seen innovations like Brave Browser and their ideas with Basic Attention Token come along. I wasn't stoked about the idea of getting paid to opt-in to ads, but any innovation, especially optional ones seem good progress. I really liked their additional strategy of making it easy to tip websites, even setting up small automatic tips when you visit. This sort of voluntary payment I really like. Many sites I wish I could easily tip, especially when finding a particularly useful article.

I think many entire industries are fighting for ways to monetize their content and they should get paid somehow for it or good content will go away. New technology gives the ability to do this in new bad or good ways. I'm hoping good ways will prevail.