Could bitcoin hold the answer to the higher fees charged by many companies dealing in microtransactions?
Funding is being sought by Trsst – an encrypted messaging platform that uses bitcoin wallet addresses as blog IDs.
Coinbase, the bitcoin payment processor, has announced that it will begin processing off-block chain microtransactions.
Flattr, the content creation micropayment service, has just announced that it will allow users to fund their account with bitcoin.
Bitcoin client Bitcoinj has implemented a fully functioning micropayments channel, which will allow a stream of small-scale payments to be sent.