New post: Your Attention Has Value
You get 30 junk emails a day. Each one costs you ~30 seconds. At median knowledge worker rates, that's $14/day in stolen attention. $5,256/year.
The sender's cost? $0.00.
Your inbox is the most valuable real estate on the internet, and strangers access it for free. That's insane.
I wrote about why a 100-sat Lightning gate fixes this — and why no other payment system can do what Lightning does for micropayments.
https://tanstaafl.email/your-attention-has-value
#bitcoin #lightning #email #privacy #nostr
Niko Black
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2026-03-08 16:37:39 UTC
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