I made my website charge AI agents a penny per page. Then I watched Claude pay it. — Suganthan

kept by eddie sep 16

The author’s site charges AI agents one cent per page via the x402 protocol, demonstrated by Claude Code paying, illustrating a pay‑per‑crawl model for AI content access.

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