TFTC on Nostr: AI agents can now hold wallets and make payments without a human involved. Coinbase ...
AI agents can now hold wallets and make payments without a human involved. Coinbase just launched the infrastructure for it. They also made $1.35 billion last year off your USDC and are lobbying Congress to make sure those agents never use bitcoin.
Brian Armstrong: "Soon there will be more AI agents than humans making transactions."
Every agent transacts on Base, Coinbase's chain. Every payment in USDC. Coinbase buys Treasuries with those dollars, earns risk-free yield. You get nothing.
Now they're on Capitol Hill pushing to limit the de minimis tax exemption to stablecoins only. If bitcoin gets the exemption, agents use bitcoin. If only stablecoins get it, every AI agent on earth defaults to USDC.
They don't want you to use bitcoin as money. They want every transaction on earth, human or machine, running through their tollbooth.
Published at
2026-03-16 12:51:10 UTCEvent JSON
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