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Izkatayesterday at 11:12 PM1 replyview on HN

The $1 in-game content payments are already so well known (and for such a long time) as "micropayments" I had thought that was where the term originated.


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Machatoday at 12:39 AM

Isn’t it microtransactions? Which kind of hints at the difference, since it’s all the ceremony of a two party transaction, while micropayments proposals usually have some focus on being automatic or frictionless