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Reputation scales poorly compared to the atomicity of a real smart contract. This is why we’ve been working on Sats4Files to swap data for files off-chain over Lightning like a real vending-machine.
If we aren’t reducing trust, then we’re all just LARPing here.
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If you’re interested in making this like a real vending machines for services (beyond requesting files like Sats4Files), I would explore the S in ZKCSP:
They provide a way to pay for services in an atomically trust-minimized way, without either party trusting each other — but it doesn’t work over Lightning yet like Sats4Files.

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