in terms of removing contract workers from your payroll and replacing them with agents “is the initial mvp,” as for paying in bitcoin that will be more about machine to machine payment automation and its final settlement aspects that only bitcoin lightning has, you could use PayPal or any merchant with an ayce model but that doesn’t solve for the meta data leakage, and the machine to machine payment automation from each hop to get the task done, lightning “will be” incredibly flexible now with all the usd poopcoins coming online