The $0.001 Payment No Human Would Ever Make: Ex-Stripe MPP Co-Author on Agent Payments and Tempo Shoal Signal Ep. 17 with @brendan_j_ryan, MPP co-author at @tempo, hosted by @zaddycoin We cover the checkout form agents will never load, why micropayments finally work once a CPU clicks OK, the Lisbon hotel week that produced MPP, why payments will never be unified, and the endgame where users pay over crypto rails without knowing it. 0:00 Checkout without the payment form 2:25 From Kubernetes to payments 4:37 Why payments will never be unified 11:25 No single payment method wins 15:16 Collapsing checkout into a protocol 18:12 Why pay-per-article finally works 20:47 Writing MPP in a Lisbon hotel 24:54 Hunting the killer use case 27:25 Turning rate limits into prices 29:50 Scrape once, serve a million times 35:05 Making 402 an official standard 40:48 Cloudflare and AWS flip the switch 42:32 Users never see the crypto rails 46:14 What finance looks like in five years 48:55 Two books on surfing entropy