I do think I answered his general question, which seemed centered around his bitcoin skepticism.
The more detailed answer on how this works can be found by going to the site and clicking "How It Works"
1 Someone Emails You
2 The Gate Catches It
3 Sender Sees the Payment Page - The sender clicks the payment link in the reply. They see exactly what's being held and what it costs:
4 Pay with Lightning — 15 seconds
5 Email Delivered
You don't need to buy into the "Bitcoin will replace the U.S. dollar" narrative to buy $5 worth of bitcoin to send a few hundreds or thousands of emails..
No one goes to an arcade wanting to play a game and says "I don't know about these tokens, though..."
You buy bitcoin somewhere (if you can't figure this out yourself you arent trying)
And send it to whatever address this app provides to you..
My 15 year old son has been building his own video games with Unreal Engine for a few years..
I was recently looking for mentors to work with him and advance his skills, targeting college aged kids / young 20s..
It was surprising to me how many people I came across in this field at this young age that are trying to focus on the "higher level" game planning aspects and not so much on the lower level implementation specifics.
openclaw, turn this into a broadway production, book me two front row seats, hire an escort..... brunette, 28, slim waist, sweet face, hates comedy and AI
A very small percentage of people know how to set up a cronjob.
They can now combine cronjobs and LLMs with a single human sentence.
This is huge for normies.
Not so much if you already had strong development skills.
EDIT:
But you are correct in the assessment that people who don't know better will use it to do simple things that could be done millions of times more efficiently..
I made a chatbot at my company where you can chat with each individual client's data that we work with..
My manager tested it by asking it to find a rate (divide this company number by that company number), for like a dozen companies, one by one..
He would have saved time looking at the table it gets its data from, using a calculator.
