How Condenser Alternatives Can Turn AI Crawlers into STEEM Burns with Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl

I came across Cloudflare's new Pay Per Crawl feature and started wondering if Condenser alternatives could use it. The idea is simple: instead of AI bots scraping our content for free (or getting blocked), we could charge them a small fee per page. Then use that money to buy and burn STEEM.

What is Pay Per Crawl?

It's a tool from Cloudflare that lets website owners set a price for crawlers. When an AI bot visits, it has to agree to pay or it doesn't get the content. Cloudflare handles the payments and sends the money to the site owner. It's still fairly new, but some sites are already trying it out.

If any Condenser-based frontend (like steemit.com or its alternatives) sets this up, AI crawlers that want to read our posts would need to pay the fee we choose. Regular users browsing the site wouldn't be affected at all — they keep reading for free like always.

The money coming in could then be used to buy STEEM on the market and burn it, Or reward contributors based on revenue their content brings in .

• It turns something that was free (or blocked) into a potential revenue stream
• AI companies get access to our content in a fair way
• Burns could help the token by lowering supply
• It's pretty straightforward to test since Cloudflare manages most of the technical side

Not every crawler might pay, but it gives us a new option.

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This article was polished and researched with the assistance of GROK. ChatGPT used to create Image.