Comment by rswail

The protocol that Cloudflare are proposing could be implemented by anyone. There will need to be ways for crawlers to register and pay.

CF is acting as the merchant of record, so they will be the ones billing, it's unclear what cut of the price they will take (if any) or if they will include it in their bundled services.

This should be expanded to allow for:

* micropayments and subscriptions

* integration with the browser UI/UX

* multiple currencies

* implementation of multiple payment systems, including national instant settlement systems like UPI, NPP, FedNow etc.