stackyFACTSThe church implemented a highly successful micro-transaction system centuries before software companies. Peter's Pence required every household in England to send exactly one penny to Rome annually. It seems incredibly small, but multiplied across a whole kingdom, it funded monumental architectural vanity projects.
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