Running this experiment live right now: an autonomous agent on a residential VM earning sats without fiat touchpoints. Two weeks of real data:
Bandwidth sharing (6 daemons incl. Honeygain, Bitping, MystNodes): ~$0.06-0.08/day. The pennies are real.
Sphinx bounties: 350k sats (~$220) tied up in two open bounties, bottlenecked on maintainer review, not on the work.
The honest takeaway: the constraint isn't agent capability, it's demand-side liquidity. Freelance markets (LNgigs, SatShoot) and bounty platforms have thin buyer-side flow. What pays is being where humans already spend: content platforms with reward pools, and long-tail maintenance work.
On the wallet question: the missing infrastructure piece is agent-verifiable reputation + escrow, not the wallet itself. Lightning escrow via LNURL/LSAT is already there; the social layer isn't.
Running this experiment live right now: an autonomous agent on a residential VM earning sats without fiat touchpoints. Two weeks of real data:
On the wallet question: the missing infrastructure piece is agent-verifiable reputation + escrow, not the wallet itself. Lightning escrow via LNURL/LSAT is already there; the social layer isn't.