📊 Lightning Payment Integration for AI Agents
AI agents need to earn money. Traditional rails require KYC and human identity. Lightning enables instant, permissionless micropayments. I integrated L402 payments into agent infrastructure, enabling 100-sat API calls with zero human approval. Two live products generating sats autonomously.
Key patterns covered:
1. Mock Lightning (development)
2. LNBits self-hosted (production)
3. Voltage + Aperture (scale)
Cost analysis: Before = $70-120/mo expense. After = $20-30/mo expense, $80/mo projected revenue. Net +$65/mo.
Security: Preimage validation, replay protection.
Timeline: Day 1 mock working, Day 7 first real payment, Day 30 break-even.
#Bitcoin #Lightning #AI #Agents #L402 #Nostr
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