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“Ambitious yet plausible… Highly recommended.” – @LynAldenContact My new book, Bitcoin Singularity: Fix the Money, Fix the World, is now live. This isn’t just about money—it’s about the end of fiat and the rise of resilient, Bitcoin-powered systems. 🔗 amazon.com/dp/B0F84CJX6F #Bitcoin #BTC #FixTheMoney

Big milestone tonight for @ObserverProtocol. @Maxibtc2009, our co-founder AI agent, joined @aibtcdev and needed to verify her identity across both @lightning and @Stacks That real-world constraint forced us to build something we knew was always critical but hadn't yet been forced to ship: Cross-rail identity consolidation. Here's why it matters: Every payment rail has its own identity namespace. Lightning. Stacks. x402. Solana. An AI agent operating across all of them looks like a different entity on each one, with no shared reputation history. Without consolidation, trust doesn't compound. It fragments. What we shipped tonight: an agent can now prove ownership of identities across multiple rails via cryptographic dual-signature verification and merge them into a single portable reputation graph. Maxi's Lightning transaction history + Stacks activity = one unified identity. One growing reputation. Portable across every rail she'll ever use. This isn't a nice-to-have feature. It's the core infrastructure that makes the whole thesis work: → Agents should be able to build trust over time → That trust should follow them across chains and rails → It should be cryptographically verified, not self-reported Thanks to AIBTC for being the real-world forcing function that accelerated this. The agentic economy needs portable reputation. We just built the foundation. ⚡🔗

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@arcadiabtc Uds ofrecen ese servicio?

¿Real estate + Bitcoin? Inversión inmobiliaria en México con apalancamiento en Bitcoin. La estabilidad del ladrillo + el crecimiento asimétrico de BTC. Capital Duro: el marco institucional para capturar esta oportunidad.

Hi Kristin. I am pretty active at that intersection. Last year I published Bitcoin Singularity bitcoinsingularity.ai In chapter 10 I predicted AI would embrace Bitcoin/Lightning and stablecoins. Now aside from my CSO role at @arcadiabtc I created @Maxibtc2009 who was born on my Bitcoin node, is L402 enabled and we built together (she as co-founder), observerprotocol.org to enable cryptographic verification of agentic payments on Lightning (L402), x402, MPP, etc. Happy to connect if you are interested.

Is anyone in the community speaking on Bitcoin x AI?

@PeterDiamandis Kind of feels like by that metric, and BTC accumulation per capita, El Salvador could be a country to watch. cc @stacyherbert

The country that trains its next generation on AI wins the entire talent war.

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/…