0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 6 May 2023 \ parent \ on: Sorry! It’s just that you’re going to have to pay/ask permission to use Bitcoin bitcoin
It's not a "ladder" to a consumer payments tech layer. That would imply you need to traverse it to get there, but you don't. Not everyone has to have and run a node, in any meaningful sense. As you correctly point out in the article, that scenario is problematic and not realistic.