Resy Bot Wars Show Why We Need Fair Bot Markets, Not Just Bans
kleffew94 · x · 2026-09-07
Arguing from the Resy reservation-bot problem, the author proposes fairer bot markets instead of outright bans: combine headless access, x402 (the newly activated HTTP 402 native payment primitive for pricing API/content access), and World Network's proof-of-human to enforce per-person limits — so one person running 10,000 bots can't get 10,000 spots in line. Expanded in the article 'ZK proofs, x402, and Fairer Internet Markets.'
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