• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    If you could pay to an IP address as easily as you can ping it

    We can do this with crypto now.

    Ideally you want to use a hardware wallet though so the payment money doesn’t have to sit in a hot wallet connected to the internet, but that means pressing a physical button to initiate the payment, but it could just sit beside the computer, and eventually be built into computers.

    Alternatively, you could have a hot wallet and it’s all seamless, but you risk the loss of funds from a compromised browser.

    It’d include a permanent record of your ownership of what you purchased as well as long as you keep that seed phrase around, so you could redownload it if you lost the files.

    Edit: And if the system was built around something like IPFS then the files would always exist.