> The Internet’s next business model will be powered by pay-per-use, fractional payments, and microtransactions—tools that shift incentives toward original, creative content that actually adds value

I don't understand this. How is pay per use and paywalling content going to incentivize the creation of original content? If anything, people are more incentivized to create low quality, generic content because they're not directly accessible by humans.

Cloudflare's plan does assume that AI crawlers and deep research agents can tell quality content from slop before they pay for it. If the AIs just pay for anything I agree with you.

They want to reinvent flattr but this time on the blockchain.