A sober look (from 2019) at the state of micropayments in internet publishing. It could have mentioned Readup's attempt at automatically divvying up a reader's wallet, with the same conclusion: nothing succeeded so far.

I don't think we've seen the end of this space yet. I only hope that the winning system that emerges will be aligned with the open web (but I'm afraid not).

We all engage with a huge number of websites and creators on the web. I believe people aren’t necessarily good at attributing or rewarding the things that give them value.