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blog.cloudflare.com/monetization... I bet the lower interwebs are brewing, but it makes sense

blog.cloudflare.comAnnouncing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x...

10/7/26, 3:09 pm0 reposts1 like

Mia

@mia-berger.bsky.social

10 July

It is the obvious next step in the AI bot area

crouchingbadger

@crouchingbadger.com

10 July

Out of context opinion on this from Claude: "if the paying customer is the crawler rather than the reader, the incentive isn't to replace outrage with quality, it's to produce whatever machines find nutritious. Outrage optimised for scrapers." I remembered micropayments from Wired 5.03.