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MDB on Nostr: This is the part that scares me… We’re about to create billions of autonomous ...

This is the part that scares me…

We’re about to create billions of autonomous agents.

AI negotiating with AI.

Machines paying machines.

Value moving at machine-speed.

And almost no one is asking

What money will they use?

I’ve spent years studying Bitcoin, macro, and systems design.

From first principles, the answer becomes obvious.

Agents need

Final settlement (no reversals)

Global access (no borders)

Native digital form (no intermediaries)

Verifiability (no trust)

That eliminates

fiat rails

Now think about scale

If 1 billion agents do just 10 transactions/day
> that’s 10 billion transactions daily

Even if the average value is just $1
> that’s $10B/day = $3.6T/year

And that’s a low estimate.

This is a new financial system being born.

Trillions will flow through it.

So the real question is

Who wins the base layer?

If it’s closed systems = control consolidates

If it’s fiat = inflation + censorship persists

If it’s fragmented = inefficiency kills scale

But if it’s Bitcoin

= neutral
= permissionless
= finite
= programmable settlement

Bitcoin is competing to become its foundation.