I'm trying to get caught up on admin, but I wrote about what I'm otherwise working on in the saloon yesterday:
I must've missed the Szabo essay titled Creating a Generic, Noncustodial Micropayment System is Really Hard.
I'm refactoring1 SN's cardiovascular system and it's difficult to express how challenging it is to associate asynchronous payments2 with otherwise independent data.3
If non-custodial4 micropayments ever become a thing, there's an opportunity for making a B2B product that makes this kind of thing easy.
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I'm ashamed to say it's practically a rewrite considering how much code is changing. ↩
Non-trivial on the face of it, but especially non-trivial with expectations that payments fan-out to multiple places depending on the action that's being performed, there's an ability to prove payments happened, and everything can still be audited. Add to it supporting a custodial crediting system as a fallback. ↩
It probably goes without saying, but especially difficult if you want to do it well ... meaning, if we're sticking with the cardiovascular metaphor, it can support the organism through radical changes and growth and still be resilient. ↩
Custodial is non-trivial too, but at least an order of magnitude less so. ↩
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