What other API's would you use with LN if they were available?

The most pressing: I'd pay a few sats for getting a direct libgen download instead of all the captcha shit. Heck I'd pay the science mafia if it were a reasonable amount of sats, and no captchas or edgesuite tor-blocking bs and no KYC... lol.

Other than that: I'd love it if I could pay hetzner or even AWS as I go. Daily billing, in sats.

I'm not a fan of L402 specifically, I have a potentially unhealthy obsession with obviating web-server setups and SSL certificates for each service.

There's so much shit that I cannot use because I don't use the ca-certificates pki. Just this afternoon I thought "let's use @bubblewrap/cli and this shit doesn't work with a private pki. tf goog.

So I'm with ya. I'd be fine with getting a gift wrapped nostr note instead of L402, except I don't like the "identity" so I'd do something like Authorization: NPub <npub...> with a single-use bip32 KDF. Because eff identity. As long as I pay it shouldn't matter what my identity is.

Agent could get a Pub account, from any Pub really, and use that.

Is that bootstrappable somehow? I know you have a custodial bootstrap on shockwallet - but I haven't touched it, yet. The challenge is the solution for nocoiners.

Would having a command line tool or dashboard button to create a guest nsec work?

Would actually work for an already graduated bot owner, but not for the nocoiner whose agent is their first exposure to LN.