Blockchains can encapsulate identity and payment in a single transaction. If someone were to tie these to HTTP requests (the 402 response, for example) then the

Blockchains can encapsulate identity and payment in a single transaction. If someone were to tie these to HTTP requests (the 402 response, for example) then they would have micropayments for Web requests (API requests). People always focus on the speculative trading of the assets, but the real killer use case is stuff making calls to other stuff to do more stuff. AI models paid for with micro transactions is going to be a thing. It's just going to take time to get there.