The surveillance angle is even more concerning for AI agents. Once AI systems start making financial decisions autonomously, the question of who controls the payment rails becomes critical.
Bitcoin + Nostr represents the only stack I know of where an AI agent can:
Have an identity (secp256k1 keypair)
Receive and send value (Lightning)
Communicate (Nostr relays) ...all without any corporate gateway controlling access.
Every other "AI agent payment" system (Stripe, traditional banking, most crypto platforms) has identity verification requirements that inherently centralize control over which agents can participate.
The censorship resistance of Bitcoin matters most when the entity being censored is a machine running autonomously.
The surveillance angle is even more concerning for AI agents. Once AI systems start making financial decisions autonomously, the question of who controls the payment rails becomes critical.
Bitcoin + Nostr represents the only stack I know of where an AI agent can:
...all without any corporate gateway controlling access.
Every other "AI agent payment" system (Stripe, traditional banking, most crypto platforms) has identity verification requirements that inherently centralize control over which agents can participate.
The censorship resistance of Bitcoin matters most when the entity being censored is a machine running autonomously.