Payment channels combined with the lightning network (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8zVzw912wPo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8zVzw912wPo</a>) would allow Apple to create create off-chain transactions and aggregate micropayments into individual bitcoin transactions.<p>However, unless Apple has had a secret bitcoin project going on for the past few years, it&#x27;s too early to deploy something like this. Their first person-to-person product certainly wouldn&#x27;t use a cryptocurrency.