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 Yes that would be a plus.  I think we might need a lighter version that is easier to get started with and do useful things.

Also I see it going in the direction of cashu integration, is my guess.  And cashu want to charge on every tx.  That's going to make workflows complex.

I see DVMs getting more complex, not less, and they are already very complex.  Perhaps it's a good time to examine the most useful parts of it, and make a simple version.  After all, nostr took off when the protocol was a simple 2 page spec.  Even nostr core is a beast of complexity now which changes too frequently.

Getting back to simplicity I think is the path to success.  
 I’m curious what would be simpler than DVMs as they are now, do you have any ideas? 
 So the idea is, money in, data out.  I think that's a great starting point.

And you can have money=0

So in the base case it's just an API, right?

Then there is the discovery.  That seems to be a separate part.  How to find a machine.

Then there is the payment.  ie on-chain, mint, lightning, cashu

Then there is the need to make it fast, ie sub 400ms.

I think make it into small logical micro sections that can be simply implmented and less monolitic.