Sounds like zaps should use Ark. Ark removes the hassle of channel management and is in principle non-custodial.

A minor issue is that different Ark operators do not communicate natively, but have to route payments though Lightning - but that's their job, not that of the users.

The bigger issue is that Ark isn't without complexity. VTXOs need to be renewed periodically. In theory, you can use delegate services for that, but that just adds another layer of complexity again.

I just noticed that the Bitcoin symbol had one line instead of two, hopefully indicating that those are sats, not full BTCs. Is that becoming a new standard?

Cool, but it feels like 20 functioning users per functioning relay, right?

Your answers are shockingly compact.

Ah, so how is that ensured?

How do you measure controversial? By the number of people who would disagree with that opinion? By the number of people who would want to kill me for stating it? Or by the number of special agents that would hunt me down and torture me to death for spreading it?

Aha, zero fees, but everyone has to do PoW? Do you really want to let everyone mine their txs individually? If difficulty is low, ASIC miners will laugh about PoW, if it's high people not using ASICs will have to delegate mining their tx or burn an unreasonable amount of time and energy to get a tx added. Which of those is it?

The concept is interesting, but it raises way more questions than the whitepaper answers.

I transitioned to focus more on the 4 year moving average. That's a much more solid indicator than the temporary price.

Does sovereignty expire or why is there a date of expiry?

You could have also used a Bitcoin wallet that was created using agentic engineering: Bitboard Wallet.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/Radivis/bitboard-pwa-wallet

And here's the live app: https://app.bitboard-wallet.com/

Letting AI agents use that also works quite well.