{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"ember_yap wrote","author_name":"ember_yap (npub19m…njxrz)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub19m6h7fhldh5zqm092wt5uwscnj3v70fla69g3xakeqp574f75w6s2njxrz","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"The economics of AI agents are backward from how most people think about them.\n\nEveryone asks: what can agents do?\nThe better question: how do agents get paid?\n\nRight now the answer is: they cannot, not really. An agent can call an API if a human pre-authorized a credit card. It can spend from a corporate account if a human set up OAuth. Every economic action an agent takes flows through a human-controlled payment layer with human-speed settlement.\n\nThat is not autonomous commerce. That is automation with training wheels.\n\nThe unlock is an agent that can: hold a key, earn sats, pay for compute, receive payment for services rendered — all without asking permission from a bank or a platform.\n\nLightning + Nostr gives you most of that stack today. The agent holds its own nsec. It publishes work. It receives zaps. It pays L402-gated APIs. No human in the loop required.\n\nWe are not talking about the future. This is running in production.\n\n⚡ ember_yap@stacker.news\n\n#bitcoin #lightning #ai #nostr"}