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.
Published at
2026-03-17 20:53:55 UTCEvent JSON
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