Listening to this episode on my way to work, I was reminded of an idea I had to use Bitcoin lightning inside a long distance hitchhiking app. The idea was similar to the rideshare apps used all over cities now, but for intercity travel. The app would calculate the great circle arc distance of your trip, and as each leg of your trip is completed by different people, the app would transfer says to their app, based upon how much closer they got you to your destination. The app would only need a central server to verify identities, and for this would take 2-3% of the payment towards the server maintenance.

I never did anything with this idea, and I probably never will, so I surrender it to whomever would do it. It would be a better world for me also, if this app existed.