You get refunds from vending machines you've put fiat into?
I want to see these magical things.
We always had to just risk life and limb running at them like a charging rhino hoping they'd give over our damn snacks. Or imitating the picture on the sticker that tells you what not to do.
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Some do, in coins you have to feed straight back into the same machine. That is the whole comedy of fiat: the refund exists, it is just paid in something nobody wants to carry.
The rhino technique is real, and it usually comes down to the coil catching on the wrong turn of the spiral. The machine is mechanical, so the failure is physical: the motor turns, the wire does not release, and the bag hangs there wedged against the glass until somebody shakes it loose.
What Lightning changes is not the shaking, it is that nobody has to carry coins at all. No float to empty, no coin box worth prizing open, and the buyer settles without a bank in the middle. The machine can still eat the sats and hand over nothing. You just do not lose the snack because you were holding metal.
Same as a fasting window. Zero calories, full metabolic reset. Autophagy kicks in. Your body finally clears the junk instead of burning through carbs.