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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not successfully. Been talked about for decades though. Seems like an apt real world non silk-road use for crypto currency. No login required, just a quick wallet transfer for a few cents and access is gained. Quick and cheap enough that's its not quite worth it to muck around with 12 foot ladders etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Companies were doing that with NFTs (which is what you’re describing) but now nobody want to touch an NFT so those companies definitely went bust.

The best case will be companies who can hide the crypto behind the product, like “give us 5$ and we’ll give you 5 read-a-tokens which is totally not crypto btw”. Or wait a couple of years for crypto to come back in vogue.