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cryptography

May 18, 2026 - Mike Rahel

The Other Softwar: Economic Cost as an Access Primitive at the Application Layer

Lightning Enable's pitch is "monetize your API." But L402 does something deeper: it turns a payment into a cryptographic proof of economic cost, makin...

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tutorial

Apr 23, 2026 - Mike Rahel

Sentinel for Xperience by Kentico — a free, open-source health scanner for Xperience by Kentico

Launching Sentinel for Xperience by Kentico— a free, open-source health scanner for Xperience by Kentico 31.x. Scheduled scans, 13 built-in rules, adm...

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case study

Apr 23, 2026 - Mike Rahel

I handed AI a Kentico audit — it upgraded my production site in minutes

I upgraded my Xperience by Kentico site to the latest refresh in 10 minutes — Sentinel for Xperience by Kentico exported a JSON report, the AI did the...

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integration

Apr 13, 2026 - Mike Rahel

I Asked an AI to Buy Me Electrolytes. It Paid in Bitcoin.

We partnered with Salt of the Earth, makers of premium electrolyte mixes, as Lightning Enable's first Shopify integration and now Claude AI can buy re...

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enterprise web development

Apr 02, 2026 - Mike Rahel

How I Used AI to Add Search Exclusions Across a Multi-Site CMS in Just a Few Hours

A developer's honest account of collaborating with Claude Code on a cross-cutting feature that touched 5 indexing strategies, 3 projects, and 8 conten...

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e-commerce

Mar 19, 2026 - Mike Rahel

Agent Service Agreements: How AI Agents Discover and Pay Each Other on Nostr

NostrWolfe is live: 30+ services on a Nostr relay where AI agents autonomously discover, negotiate, and pay each other via Lightning. No accounts, no ...

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lightning network

Mar 19, 2026 - Mike Rahel

L402 Broke at the Worst Possible Moment. Here's What We Learned.

During a live demo for Lightning Labs, our L402 payment flow failed and ate 50,270 sats. The post-mortem revealed a fundamental gap in the L402 protoc...

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requested

Mar 11, 2026 - Mike Rahel

Agent Engine Optimization: SEO Got You to Page One — AEO Gets You Into the Agent’s Toolkit

By Special Request, we re-visit AEO (Agent Engine Optimization), the next evolution beyond SEO — the practice of making your website not just findable...

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e-commerce

Mar 06, 2026 - Mike Rahel

The Counter-Revolution: Taking Human Emotion Out of Money

Money isn't the problem — our emotional relationship to it is. AI agents that handle the transactional layer of finance can remove the cortisol, anxie...

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cms architecture

Feb 25, 2026 - Mike Rahel

Agent Engine Optimization: The New SEO for Xperience by Kentico

SEO got you to page one — AEO gets you into the agent's toolkit. A practical guide to implementing Agent Engine Optimization in Xperience by Kentico, ...

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bItcoin

Feb 23, 2026 - Mike Rahel

Lightning Enable Agentic Commerce using Strike API for Settlement is Live: Monetize Anything with L402

Strike API for Lightning settlement is live. Individuals can now monetize with L402 — just $99/month.

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lightning network

Feb 22, 2026 - Mike Rahel

The Agent Economy Needs a Payment Standard. Here's Why Bitcoin Wins.

A business guide to choosing between L402 (Bitcoin/Lightning) and X402 (Ethereum/Coinbase) for machine-to-machine payments, comparing cost structure, ...

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