The internet revenue models were still nonexistent in the late 90's, but Kelly saw something that described this perfectly. 👌

"Wealth in this new regime flows directly from innovation, not optimization; that is, wealth is not gained by perfecting the known, but by imperfectly seizing the unknown." - Kevin Kelly

Lightning payments also have fixed cost per transaction. Each payment has a base fee. Currently in my experience it is often zero or close to zero, but do you think this will persist? Is there incentive for nodes to route payments for (almost) free?

I’d love to see experiments with ‘zap to unlock article’ instead of a paywall/subscription model.

Andrej gets bitcoin, he did a whole barebone implementation of Core in python years ago, if I remember correctly

I definitely think GDP would go up if fixed costs were driven down, but I don't think it would be a huge upward driver of GDP.

Bitcoin over LN may be the currency of AI

Not to be ignorant but who is this guy

It is the same with people whom are putting measly amount of gold in escrow or safekeeping. They spend more for securing their gold as against the amount of gold in their name.