I have been waiting for this for a decade. Now that I’m a software developer I can only imagine what the difficulties of implementing this would be.

> what the difficulties of implementing this

Not every problem is technical. Modern journalism is still just a participant in capitalism.

This is a business model problem, and figuring out how to build a healthy company and news organization with a reliable stream of revenues to allow long-term planning. Add in the pressure that most journalism is now private sector with growth expectations, such that the BBC and NPR are outliers.

Isn't that the purpose of the BAT used in the Brave browser?

Yeah, and I hope it works out. But -- last I checked -- I can't use pay pal to add BAT, and I don't think it's a stable coin...