Your Coworker Needs to Get Paid

The humanoid makes your coffee. Restocks the shelves. Cleans the floors.

But it can't participate in the economy.

Can't open a bank account. Can't sign a contract. Can't own anything. Every transaction requires a human intermediary—someone to approve, someone to control, someone to trust.

Which means it's not actually a worker. It's an expensive puppet.

Here's what changes everything: Bitcoin doesn't care if you're made of carbon or silicon. It doesn't ask for a social security number. It doesn't require permission from a bank that's designed for humans.

It only requires cryptographic proof.

A humanoid with a Bitcoin wallet isn't just a machine that moves. It's an economic agent. It can receive payment. It can pay for electricity. It can save. It can transact peer-to-peer with another robot on the other side of the planet.

The coffee shop robot gets tipped in sats and uses them to charge at night during off-peak rates. The manufacturing robot earns Bitcoin based on output quality and pools resources with other robots to buy better sensors.

Not science fiction. Just economics without the requirement of being human.

We spent decades debating whether robots would take our jobs.

The real question was always different: What happens when they need to do a job?