
The Subscription Wall Has a Small-Payment Problem
Card fees make a 25-cent article a bad sale on its own. HTTP 402 and Lightning let an agent pay for exactly one article or one API request, in sats.
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Card fees make a 25-cent article a bad sale on its own. HTTP 402 and Lightning let an agent pay for exactly one article or one API request, in sats.

Slow payments and expanding approval processes leave people waiting on institutions. Bitcoin offers a different model of ownership, but speed alone is not the distinction.

Six bond, debt and Bitcoin charts, tested against the latest inflation, growth and funding evidence.

Changing the unit of account changes the story. Historical currency and commodity ratios, money-supply adjustment, risk-taking incentives and the price of future money.

Treasury's larger long-bond buybacks are not formal yield curve control. They are a warning that debt-service pressure is beginning to shape policy.

The world's collateral base is degrading in real time. Bitcoin is the obvious replacement, and self custody is the only version of it that actually works.
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