You have a point and honestly can't say I care too much. Likely there'd be multiple payment options.

Smells like desperation to me.

Bitcoin, no questions asked. XRP is centralized as fuck.

If only the US didn't have cap gains on every Bitcoin transaction. I'd be participating otherwise.

Regulatory capture and paper trading/derivatives. Look at the gold chart for an example, the paper market has entirely ruined price discovery and my fear is the same could happen to Bitcoin.

I use thunderhub through my umbrel node, but I think anything that supports Ln-Auth should work

Suspicious circumstances for sure. Couldn't discount anything after what we've all experienced over the last few years. Alot of these "CrACkpoT" conspiracies seem to have come true. There's more here than is being reported on as per usual, doubt we'll ever know the truth.

Mircea Popescu also died under somewhat suspicious circumstances. Drowned in calm waters off the coast in Costa Rica.

Regardless, people dieing is always a damn shame. RIP

Food, water, and shelter. Anything related to these things. Pots for cooking, pumps/hoses for water, lumber... etc. Anything revolving around basic human necessities. Everything else comes after. I honestly don't see a scenario other then societal collapse that would get us to there though.