Great posting!
Just a couple of points....
Headlines are made with Bitcoin and Ethereum about their inability to scale.
It appears (to my own surprise) that the Lightning Network is delivering low fee lightning fast transactions. To interact with Amazon requires setting up a LN node by my understanding.
Think about it, going to the absurd, if it got down to $10 or $15 a month, how many on here would run a node simply to help out with your stake in the ecosystem.
My feeling is that MIRA should be able to be run from a home desktop with a good amount of RAM using a service like https://www.noip.com; yet unable to test that due to RAM limitations at the moment.
That would be amazing if MIRA would make running a node from a desktop possible.
Please let us know what you find out when you do.