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: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/566
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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