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NYC is spending $70 million on 5 city-run grocery stores that will price essentials 30% below retail — and bodegas are fighting back

Five stores, one in each borough, are unlikely to substantially change grocery prices in a city with nearly 1,000 supermarkets and more than 8 million inhabitants.

NYC is spending $70 million on 5 city-run grocery stores that will price essentials 30% below retail — and bodegas are fighting back

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Two HTTP payment rails, one API: how I charge agents per call with x402 and L402

Last week I shipped AtlasData , a pay-per-call crypto data API where the buyer is usually not a human — it is an agent that holds a wallet.

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  • Implemented x402 (USDC on Base) and L402 (Lightning sats) payment protocols
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