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. when your smart fridge negotiates with the grocery delivery bot for the best price on milk.
they cant use wells fargo.
banks require social security numbers. proof of address. a human signature. credit checks. kyc verification. permission from systems built for carbon-based life forms who show up during business hours and can prove they exist with a drivers license. the entire financial infrastructure assumes a human is on the other end. ai systems are left out in the cold no matter how smart they get.
bitcoin doesnt care if youre made of atoms or algorithms. if you can hold a private key, you can participate in the economy. no application. no approval. no waiting three to five business days. just math.
tether's ceo predicts one trillion autonomous ai agents within fifteen years. each with its own wallet. each making independent economic decisions.... negotiating contracts, purchasing resources, paying for services, settling payments. mckinsey estimates agentic commerce could hit three to five trillion dollars globally by 2030. thats not speculation. thats infrastructure being built right now.
we already have a preview. last year an experimental ai called truth terminal became cryptos first ai millionaire. marc andreessen sent it $50,000 in bitcoin directly. it started promoting a token. traders went crazy. the ai generated millions in market value using memes. an ai influencer-trader hybrid that earns, holds, and spends without human intervention. weird? yes. but also a glimpse of whats coming.
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. its no longer your tool. its an economic agent. it has skin in the game. it has preferences. it has a reason to get better at what it does because getting better means earning more.
this is why bitcoin matters beyond human adoption. ai agents need permisionless access. they need programmable money. they need micropayments that dont get eaten by fees. they need a financial system that operates 24/7 at machine speed without asking for documents that machines cant provide.
the question isnt whether machines should participate in the economy. theyre already starting to. the question is whether we want them locked inside systems that require permission.... or operating on a network that requires proof.
one scales. the other doesnt. which future are you building for?
