After the Resy Bot Fiasco: x402 Payments Plus Proof-of-Human for Fairer Ticket Queues
kleffew94 · x · 2026-09-07
Responding to the Resy reservation bot saga, the author argues for fairer bot markets rather than outright bans: headless access + x402 payments + World's proof-of-human could enable real per-person limits for tickets and reservations, so one person running 10,000 bots can't get 10,000 places in line.
It builds on his article "ZK proofs, x402, and Fairer Internet Markets" — with HTTP 402 now activated, the web finally has a native payment primitive, letting servers price API and content access directly over HTTP.
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