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.

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.

faithandcredit

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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Paper Synopsis: On the Impact of Attachment Strategies for Payment Channel Networks

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.?"