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A special episode of the Privacy Podcast. Ben Schiller sits down with Miden co-founders @azeemk and @bobbinth on why privacy is no longer optional for crypto's survival, and how Miden is building the infrastructure to fix it. youtube.com/watch?v=h2n9fH…


82 companies have been submitted via x402 and added to agenticpayments.artemisanalytics.com !! i built this market map in a day and monetized it instantly. all without needing a merchant account or payment processor setup. anyone can pay to submit a company and it just works. right now, our interface for interacting w the web is trending toward walled gardens, with leading AI companies whitelisting the apps and services we're allowed to use. this works great for the top integrations (e.g., google suite, figma, slack, notion)... but what abt everything else? the alternative future is an open ecosystem where users can discover/test/access hyper-personalized products created by any human or agent. this long tail of useful-but-tiny services only exists if the barrier to becoming a merchant approaches zero. that's what crypto primitives like stablecoins, blockchains, wallets, and x402 make possible.









