Thank you. Number-Go-Up eventually has to correspond with better businesses, more productive online experiences, better transparency when you're "deploying capital" online and a more predictable, higher-quality internet experience overall.

Take Stacker News: SN takes 'a cut' of everything that moves through Stacker News. All the posts, all the boosts, revenue, everything as I understand it. But a cut also goes to the posting community at large regardless... and the good posters themselves get zapped so everyone feels happy.

And there are no advertisements which is amazing.

Business is facilitated, the pay-to-post keeps the bots and spammers away if it isn't obvious what's spam from moderation alone (which is impossible on a really big platform) and everyone likes getting a few sats if they put the time in.

In writing this... I really wanted to 'tie in' traditional economics which is all about productivity and 'growth.' In my opinion more people will come to Bitcoin eventually... and there will be an economic 're-look' at Bitcoin beyond the noise and speculation. And even though there will only be 21 million Bitcoin, that doesn't mean there can't be growth and huge improvements in productivity from 'online capital.'

When that happens, we should be ready with business models, more productive activities (like Stacker News) and better incentives for capital so that all the future Lightning businesses and start-ups get built.

It's way more than just "selling Bitcoin" - a business that uses Lightning can have new and better customers than one that doesn't... and I believe we'll have to see that in the future for this to work.

Like Bezos said, it's not about "the internet" - it's about the customer and what keeps them coming back.