This is a technical paper which is fine :) But i am also interested in questions such as
"How do you join the network if you dont have any money?"
"How can you make money if you have not joined the network.?"
Well, you don't need any money to have someone open a channel to you so the tongue-in-cheek answer would be.... connections, ;)
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Not a good answer imo because it makes it seem like a permissioned system then. And the ones opening the channel need money to open a channel to you. So not sustainable to do it for free either it seems.
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Could you get a job that paid in BTC over lightning if you didnt have a lightning wallet? I guess they could keep a balance for you until you have enough to afford some inbound liquidity and withdraw.
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Yup, free money is not sustainable unfortunately.
Stacker.news operates kind of like that. You can post for free, earn sats and then you can afford to pay for comments/posts.
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