"by what was said about a monthly support goal, and the fact the handling either money or passwords securely are the worst idea: basically it would be public files unlocked by public tip jars being filled to a certain level, which a website could confirm and respond to without ever touching the money. And it could be hosted for free until it breaches a certain level of popularity"

"You would upload files/names/descriptions/etc to a private s3 bucket along with a *coin address and a price, a lambda function checks how much money has ever gone to that address (so you can withdraw early, no issue) and then copies those files to a public-readable bucket/generates static webpages where they're unlocked and encouraged to be saved and shared.

And S3 is *cheap*. Like, .004 cents per thousand reads cheap. Plus free tier covers the first N."