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You’re right about the core principle: Lightning should remain push-only. No merchant should be able to pull funds from your wallet.
But “subscriptions” don’t require pull payments. They require recurring push with user-set rules.
“Pay X sats monthly to this merchant only, up to a cap. Stop if the amount changes. I can revoke anytime.” That’s sovereignty with automation.
Cards are merchant-pull. This is still wallet-push, just scheduled.
Some people will always prefer manual monthly approval. Totally fine. Merchants still need predictable billing (retries, receipts, access control). Lightning can support both: manual renewals and opt-in rules-based autopay.
some people
Those are the ones that are still living in a fiat world and don"t want to change.
Bitcoin is also about changing the mentality.
We should not try to adapt bitcoin to exiting old fiat behaviors but changing our behavior.
A "scheduled" payment is a fiat mentality that push people into more spending without thinking. Compulsory spending.
When you literally have to make that payment manualy you still have time to use your brain twice before you pay something. That makes you review better on what you spend your sats.
Incredible how people nowadays do not realize how powerful is every sat and they just throw it away on stupid things "scheduled".
Bitcoin subscriptions are idiotic, just a reminiscence of the fiat system.
Fuck tjis shit. I will never use it.
If I want to pay something I will do it myself pushing the payment - approving it, signing it.