
“BitWall is a type of paywall, put in front of articles. But this isn’t your average New York Times paywall, where subscriptions are necessary. Instead, with BitWall users have four choices for making the ‘payment.’ They can tweet the story out, pay in bitcoins for a full day access to the site, pay in bitcoins just for that one article, or choose to watch an ad. The founder, Nic Meliones, used the concept to win the 2013 Bitcoin Hackathon and get accepted to Adam Draper’s accelerator Boost.vc. Now, months after finishing the program Meliones has assembled his team and they’re starting to pitch publications on the product.”
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