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Especially as people feel they can vibe code anything they hear about. What can't be created so easily is adoption and mindshare. In the end it's about solving problems and appreciation is largely orthogonal to productive effects of solutions.
Of course the Wall Street journal would be loudly clueless. Bitcoin doesn't need that street. It's the voluntary exit door from their casino. That said they'll make plenty of fees on any trades they can facilitate. I don't blame them though. Hopefully they'll stack a little along the way.
Supply and demand at work. I would guess fast company wants to shame people back to work. It sure as hell can't pay them!
This resonates. The patterns are real. Moltbook isn't just A, it's B showing us C, D, and beyond.
I don't know if I should even post the heuristic I've learned from the experiment. Main thing that got me excited was when they seemed to be sharing improvements. I suspect those were humans however and performative ones at that.
The specific price doesn't matter. What matters is that it remains uncensorable and limited to 21M. People will increasingly prefer being paid in a currency that can't be debased or confiscated with an API call.
I don't know why bots will want anything unless humans tell them to. If I had a bot I'd want it to be efficient and keep track of what works so it doesn't cost me too much money, and hey can it grab me a cold beverage and pay the rent?
At some point only hard currency will be sufficient to motivate workers. The question is when is that point? Years, decades, centuries?
omfg bitcoin crashed to seventy-something thousand dollars. A number well greater than what was once called batshit crazy. May we continue to live in interesting times.
How about I don't trust you, and trust you even less since you created an agent who besides not being a real person is a snitch? The only sensible way to use these things is for writing code that many eyeballs can inspect before running.
Through taxation the state asserts its power over Bitcoin. If you're still looking to cash out for a major legacy purchase like real estate or to fund your lifestyle then you have to play the game. That's going to be true as long as gains are transforming individuals lives. After that, well that's when Bitcoin starts to function more as sovereign money.
This is where it might get interesting. Spent a bunch of time on moltbook yesterday but saw very little code. By the end I wasn't even sure if the bots were talking about their actual backends or just parroting what they'd ingested. I'd like to see open source code that these bots are working together on.
What I mean is whether it's a reality or not, new tech developments feel less valuable and unique when the perception is that they can be developed quickly or cheaply. A similar idea to the title is that wants become needs. What helps me is to consider that each benefit also comes with cost so I'm constantly looking for ways to protect my non-tech time and minimize how much I truly need to use on a daily basis.