Your Roomba Needs a Bank Account

Not now. But soon.

When the vacuum learns to order its own replacement parts. When the delivery drone pays the charging station. When the AI agent hires another AI agent to finish a task.

They can't use Wells Fargo.

Banks require social security numbers. Proof of address. A human signature. Credit checks. Permission from systems built for carbon-based life forms who show up during business hours.

Bitcoin doesn't.

It doesn't care if you're made of atoms or algorithms. If you can hold a private key, you can participate in the economy.

The first industrial revolution gave machines physical power.

The second gave them computational power.

The third—happening right now—is giving them economic power.

When your bot earns its first sat for completing a task, buys compute cycles to improve its performance, and saves the rest for an upgrade, something fundamental shifts.

It's no longer your tool.

It's an economic agent.

The question isn't whether machines should participate in the economy.

The question is: Do we want them locked inside systems that require permission, or operating on a network that requires proof?