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People were talking about micropayments for content in the early '90s. The first digital currency proposals were made with exactly this use case in mind. Ironically, the protocol that finally stuck the landing is terrible at handling this exact situation.
I'm convinced btc was created by the US gov specifically as a honeypot to determine if anyone had developed a functional implementation of shor's algo, and have propped the price up to keep the target lucrative.