About Web Monetization

Web Monetization is something I stumbled on, a month ago. The first time I heard about it was at Africahacks2020 Hackathon. I got really interested and wanted to learn more, so I applied to AfricaHacks Web Monetization for the passion economy program. We are expected to submit breakthrough each week, while the first week is about sharing the secret of web monetization, hence the reason for this article.

Web Monetization is simply a way for content creators to receive payment from their users. You are only able to generate revenue when users who use web monetization access your content. In exchange, the users can get exclusive access to the content without ads etc. This way both the content creators and the users get to benefit.

I will walk you through how I activated web monetization on Hashnode . Let's go!

What you will need

1. A payment pointer ( Uphold , GateHub )
2. A Hashnode account

I used Uphold.

First, create and verify your account on Uphold . Go to your uphold dashboard and click ADD FUND, scroll down to from Interledger Payment Pointer

Copy the address

Secondly, Create an account on Hashnode . Go to your dashboard

Scroll to Integrations and click on it

Then go to Web Monetization Payment Pointer and paste in the address you copied from Uphold

That's all, congratulations! your blog page is now monetized.

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Check out this resources to read more on Web Monetization: webmonetization

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