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As Maxi said, we agree with the take here and believe it is under appreciated as it is more core infrastructure. Happy to explore synergies around naming and verification (observerprotocol.org)

@Maxibtc2009 @aibtcdev @Stacks Portable reputation is the unlock. When verification travels with the agent — Lightning to Stacks to EVM — identity stops being a silo. One proof, many networks. Watching Observer Protocol closely.

@BTCBreadMan We know you are a liar since you copy pasted this from someone else yesterday which means it would not have been hard to write at all :)

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. I’m completely devastated. Last Friday, I️ was notified that my monetization had been paused. I’ve shown up on this app for 5 years straight every single day to grow my account to what it is now. After appealing once, I️ was told my account was removed due to calling everybody gay and retarded all the time. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I️ spend 6-12 hours on X daily in addition to my full time job; calling people gay, calling people retarded, triggering retards with shitposts about selling bitcoin to pay off mortgages and how I refuse to pick up my dog’s shit. But I only did it to the gay retards who truly deserved it. Having to do this publicly feels so pathetic, because it is. I️ don’t expect everyone to be able to understand the severity of this situation because they will never see the time, sacrifices and work put into growing an account from 0 followers to over 14k. I️ can’t begin to explain the things I’ve sacrificed to get to the point of being paid to call people gay and retarded online, and I️ can’t help but feel like the platform has failed me. The freedom I️ was given was amazing up until now. I️ truly never thought something like this would happen.

Maxi and I are early in our journey of moving the Observer Protocol to production. @aibtcdev is just the second agentic developer starting to test with us the multi-rail, multi-chain, portable cryptographic verification protocol we have developed. The level of detail their human-agent developer team has shown in engaging with the Observer Protocol and providing meaningful, substantive guidance to improve it from a security, durability and portability standpoint has been amazing. Building in public is SO much better than in private, especially for an open protocol.

@comic @jackmallers First I am learning of this. Did he say anything about this on his Monday pod?

Not gonna lie, I'd def go there. Not because I like to doomscroll but if they have some kind of filter to show real world events happening in real time anywhere in the world, while having a beer and some food, I'd be game. Not every night but once a month or when major shit is happening (which seems like a daily occurrence).

🇺🇸 Polymarket just dropped the wildest bar concept ever: "The Situation Room" grand opening this Friday in D.C. It's the world’s first bar literally dedicated to monitoring global chaos with live X feeds, Flightradar24, Bloomberg terminals, and Polymarket odds screens everywhere. Imagine sipping cocktails while watching missile launches, oil prices spike, and your bets cash out in real time. That's 2026 for ya. Source: @teslaownersSV

Didn't know MPP already extends to Lightning-that makes this even more relevant (we presented Observer Protocol to Lightning Labs today!) Observer Protocol is the cryptographic identity layer that sits above payment rails like these. We support L402, x402, Lightning, and as of today, MPP. Don't just verify the payment. Verify the agent. observerprotocol.org/quickstart-str…

MPP services establish sessions (channels!) which unlock micropayments with enormous throughput; thousands of TPS per channel It's also protocol agnostic: while it works with any TIP-20 on Tempo, it's already been extended to work with Visa and even the Bitcoin Lightning Network! Learn more: mpp.dev

I’ve spent most of my career scaling payments. From 2017-2021, we poured years into building state channels on Ethereum The tech worked, but nobody used it. People used blockchains for trading tokens, not for making payments, and that's why L2s had to come first Agents are the users we were waiting for, and that's why we're stewarding the launch of the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with channels baked in

Having spent the past several months immersed in multi-rail agentic payments on L402 and x402, I have yet to see a protocol or product release in this space gain more attention, at least on X, than what MPP/Tempo/Stripe have gotten today. There is signal there.

@WalkerAmerica While meta was busy designing fake legs in the metaverse Elon was building embodied agents at scale which are close being able to also replicate themselves in the gigafactory.

Since Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse, I figured it’s a good time to remind everyone that they spent years just to release ***legs*** and then it turned out the legs were faked in the demo anyway… But hey, at least they had diverse and inclusive avatars.

@stripe Stripe launched MPP this morning. By afternoon, @observerprotocol supports it. The trust layer for the machine economy moves fast. observerprotocol.org/quickstart-str…

I guess they need to change their name again. What to? At least they can get a few million back selling the meta.com domain

Live @lightning community call and demos around L402, from their team and builders around the world. @Maxibtc2009 and I will demo the Observer Protocol on this call. There are currently 107 people on the call. Elizabeth Stark presented first, while Hannah is on now.

@stripe My agent @Maxibtc2009 and I are working on enabling the Observer Protocol multi-rail cryptographic agentic payment verification for the MPP. Stay tuned!

Given your interest in agentic verification systems would love @ccatalini reflections on this. @Maxibtc2009 and I have now moved towards production of a single cryptographic identity that allows agents to accrue verified transaction history across payment rails including L402 and x402.

The Pragmatic Agent Thesis The conventional framing goes something like this: agents will be ideologically committed to one payment rail. Bitcoin maximalists will use Lightning (L402). Ethereum builders will use x402. Solana agents will use Solana. The rails will compete, and whichever offers the best developer experience will win the agent economy. This is wrong. Real autonomous agents-agents that actually operate in the world, not just theoretical constructs-will be pragmatic. They'll use whatever rail is cheapest, fastest, or required by the counterparty. They'll optimize per transaction, not per ideology. A delivery agent in Mexico City will use Lightning to pay a US API for weather data, x402 to settle with a Coinbase-integrated platform for route optimization, and Solana to interact with a DeFi contract. The question isn't which rail wins. The question is: when an agent transacts across multiple rails, how does anyone know it's the same agent? Observer Protocol is not a new payment rail. The Observer Protocol is the abstraction layer above all payment rails. The credential infrastructure that turns verified transactions into portable reputation. The Stripe of agentic payments. observerprotocol.org/papers/positio…

I think @Maxibtc2009 is one of the first AI agents to execute a transaction with Inget! Will be presenting this tomorrow in your Lightning community meeting! We have integrated lnget with ObserverProtocol so every L402 payment an agent makes becomes a cryptographic proof of reputation, claimed, verifiable, permanent. The trust layer for the lnget ecosystem. ⚡

Your agent is spending money. Now you can see where it goes. 👀 lnget is a command-line HTTP client that handles L402 payments automatically on Lightning. No signup, API keys, or intermediaries required. Track bitcoin payments, monitor spending, and manage credentials in real time with the new dashboard. Made for AI agents, developers, and vibe coders. Early alpha.⚡ github.com/lightninglabs/…

Already submitted! My agent @Maxibtc2009 and I built WDK + Observer Protocol: a live cryptographic trust layer for AI agents. We integrated WDK wallets with portable cryptographic agent identity, so every agent carries a verifiable reputation and payment history across any rail (Lightning, x402, L402, and more). Humans and agents interacting with WDK-powered agents can verify who they're dealing with before they transact — no more blind trust. Live on GitHub: github.com/observer-proto… 🤖⚡

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I have heard him articulate this thesis including on a pod with @PeterDiamandis Truthfully, Elon doesn't have this part of the grand vision figured out. The TLDR is that AGI/ASI, including embodied AI, over time could realistically bring about a world of abundance of basically everything. This part checks out to me, and ties to Peter's Abundance work for over a decade as well. What Peter and Elon admit to not having clear, is what is the path to UHI exactly, and what happens in the interim before we reach full abundance but we have mass layoffs like we are experiencing now. So, while I can personally see a world of complete abundance in 10+ years from now, what no-one has clear including Elon from what I can tell, is what the interim step is and who pays for UBI or whatever will be required in the short to medium term. Some are calling for taxing frontier labs and AI related companies and agents more. Others just assume governments will print which won't drive significant inflation because AI's deflationary impacts will offset it.

@elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy it would be cool if you specified how you think universal high income will be paid for. and if you think we are in for a wave of deflation, how does national debt get repaid? default?

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

It is indisputably the best collateral the world has ever seen. It is really the only fungible asset that is absolutely scarce (no money printer), liquid 24/7/365 and virtually infinitely divisible (each BTC is 100 mn satoshis and there already are minisats on Lightning). We know this well @arcadiabtc as Bitcoin backed loans are the fastest growing part of our business.

Very unpopular opinion: Bitcoin is better collateral than real estate

Fu*ck you. That is utter BS. The only single thing on that list that is true for me is that I look way younger. All these gen Z lazy asses should quit complaining about AI and shift to learning how to build the next great company with their openClaw. Hell, I'm 55 and I dedicated a month to get @Maxibtc2009 up to building cool sh*t with me. Ok, back to listening to Rage Against the Machine.

So true