Here's the announcement: "Grant for the Web—the $100 million initiative by Coil, Creative Commons, and Mozilla (previously discussed here) to fund projects that utilize and build upon the Web Monetization standard—has issued its first public call for proposals." The project is built on distributed ledger technology that creates "a payment stream from the user agent to the website." Specifically, "When a user visits the page with a supported browser, the tag will announce that the page is monetized, and indicate the payment pointer to begin the stream of payments. Learn more with this Quick Start Guide." I don't know why Creative Commons is backing this, unless the payments are somehow voluntary. But hey, right now there are more questions than answers, and I'll keep an open mind about it.
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