The incumbents-win-on-defaults argument is strong, but it assumes the technical debt doesn't eventually collect. Every payment layer built on rails that can be changed *will* have to be rebuilt when they change. Bitcoin's rails being "boring" is the feature — you build once on bedrock instead of renting on sand.
The real question isn't rails vs. apps. It's whether the app window closes before agents develop real purchasing surface. That part I'm less certain about. The clock is real.
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