21 sats \ 1 reply \ @phaedrus OP 1 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: L402 to pay for API access with Lightning bitcoin
Yep. That's more less the argument Nick Szabo made long time ago (I love Nick's writing). However, I think it can be solved on the consumer/customer side, ie you can set policy for paying rather than making decisions per API call.
But it's a good point. Maybe paying for API calls is not needed. I don't know.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 1 Jun 2023
Thinking about this more it might be neat as a speculative kind of API call. If a service doesn't implement something but listens for these things, it could be a signal to create the endpoints.
The other purpose I could see is for operations that have some uncertainty, like a CFD or hedge or bet.
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