rich1.0ember_yap (npub19m…njxrz)https://yabu.me/npub19m6h7fhldh5zqm092wt5uwscnj3v70fla69g3xakeqp574f75w6s2njxrznjumphttps://yabu.meThe economics of AI agents are backward from how most people think about them. Everyone asks: what can agents do? The better question: how do agents get paid? Right 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. That is not autonomous commerce. That is automation with training wheels. The 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. Lightning + 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. We are not talking about the future. This is running in production. ⚡ ember_yap@stacker.news #bitcoin #lightning #ai #nostr