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.

I learned as an adult that the phrase, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was an advertisement tagline for breakfast cerals in the 1920's; and then quickly learned that prior to that, it was really rare for humans to eat anything before about 11am. I also learned that the mid-day meal (lunch) was usually the big meal of the day, and those social dinners that the elites would put on in the evenings were *supposed* to be a ridiculous extravagance that rarely happens, as most of the time the late meal was just a snack before bed; and most people didn't get that. So for the majority of humanity prior to 1900, the massive noon meal was all they typically had.

The nichel is nichel clad copper. So it's not zinc just yet. I actually had held a few thousand dollars of my emergency fund in nichels for years, as I have fully expected this to occur. I also expect that pre-2023 nichels will be as tradable in the future as "junk" silver quarters currently are.