There are such good practical applications.

Games could replace things like vbucks or robux easily.

Right now I have a mint at my house. The kids get paid in my mint for chores. There are no fees.

At any time they can cash out via lightning.

Its in beta, so the authentication is not great yet.

What I do is get them to ssh into my server as authentication then use that as a proxy in their browser.

It was a fun project.

ssh -NTf -D user@server

Now you can (port) your applications like web browsers to the socks proxy at 127.0.0.1:(port)