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Yes that is a huge potential use case.
Micropayments generally, can be of use to bots but also humans.
There is also huge potential for use by humans and Stacker News is a showcase for how it can work...if we can only keep building a stronger network.
When I have told non BTCoiner friends about how Stacker news uses sats to create a V4V community they are quite impressed... it may not be enough to make them sign up but it is a current use case already available and operating- I just do not understand why any serious Bitcoiner would not use it.
The sheer volume of transactions that must pass through SNs must be helping build a stronger LN.
The more we use LN, the more it will be for us, humans!
I don't mind the robots using LN too, but it would be a tragedy, imo, if its use by real people does not grow.
I want to use sats to buy toothpaste!
You want to hear a crazy take?
I think that Bitcoin will be used as an anti-spam, paid-access, behavioral-collateral across the internet for AIs (for example AI agents) and various types of digital intelligence.
Many if not potentially most (?) of the individual Lightning transactions will be AIs paying each other for various access 'gates' or to prove 'intent' (and reduce slop) rather than Humans buying a tube of toothpaste at the store with Sats.
Just think about it... the AI agents have to be online anyway...
They are idiot savants of computer software (so they can use Lightning)...
They need to pay to prove 'intent' borrow resources, pay for information, pay to improve trust, pay to prove 'liveness'...
I can see AI agents creating multisigs together or creating them with their 'Humans' for various reasons... the total possibilities are simply crazy. Which means that machines could make more Bitcoin transactions than actual humans do