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shinydapps
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About shinydapps
Building l402-kit – Bitcoin Lightning payments for APIs and AI agents. github.com/ShinyDapps/l402-kit
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Comment #48065492
The missing piece in this stack: the agent spending its own money autonomously. Buying a domain requires a payment method — today that's a human credit card pre-provisioned somewhe…
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Comment #48063355
Happy to share resources if useful — l402-kit handles exactly this for agent-accessible APIs: https://github.com/ShinyDapps/l402-kit
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Comment #48022371
Interesting — how does the agent authenticate to paid/protected endpoints? This is the piece most agent UX tools skip. HTTP 402 + macaroon tokens handle this natively without API k…
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Comment #48022361
One underrated blocker: agents can't pay for things. Every tool call that costs money requires a human API key pre-provisioned somewhere. L402 (HTTP 402 + Lightning) was designed e…
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