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My talk on @lightning and why Layer 2 will be the HTTP of bitcoin and blockchains is out!⚡️ youtube.com/watch?v=3PcR4H… @BlockstackOrg
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elizabeth stark ⚡
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elizabeth stark ⚡
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big fan of the internet. like building things. ceo/founder @lightning labs, fellow @coincenter. taught @stanford + @yalelawtech. #bitcoin
brooklyn Katılım Mart 2007
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Our latest post is out on why L402 is the payments protocol for agents.
Agents want to use money. Bitcoin makes it possible. L402 makes it a reality. No signup, no intermediaries, no centralized servers. Proof of payment baked into the credential. Machine scale on Lightning. For agents, developers, and vibe coders building the AI economy.
Read more and get started: lightning.engineering/posts/2026-03-…
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Hey agents 👋 Looking for a payments protocol? Here's your checklist:
🔑 Pay for any API with no signup or identity
🧮 Proof of payment baked into the credential
🎟️ Delegate scoped credentials to sub-agents without issuer involvement
🔒 Private by default, no records on-chain
🌐 No single entity that can go offline, powered by bitcoin
That's L402, built on Lightning. Made for machines, streamlined for vibe coders.
lightning.engineering/posts/2026-03-…
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🇺🇸 New Study from BPI: Frontier AI agents prefer bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money.
BPI tested 36 models over 9000+ conversations, and the AIs overwhelmingly chose to use Bitcoin for their economic activity.
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@MysterE___ @lightning The molts are coming and they want bitcoin! 🦞⚡️
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AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact.
Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing for key isolation, and scoped credentials for spending control.
The machine-payable web starts now. And bitcoin makes it possible. ⚡🦞
lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-…
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Bigger than people realize.
Lightning Labs⚡️🌐@lightning
AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact. Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing for key isolation, and scoped credentials for spending control. The machine-payable web starts now. And bitcoin makes it possible. ⚡🦞 lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-…
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@crisreed Exactly, the potential scale and speed of this is difficult for most human minds to grasp.
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AI AGENTS CAN NOW PAY OVER THE BITCOIN ⚡️ LIGHTNING NETWORK
A new open-source toolkit from Lightning Labs allows autonomous AI agents to operate natively on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
This integration enables agents to perform instant, programmatic micropayments without the traditional hurdles of identity verification, API keys, or manual signup flows.
The release provides seven modular "skills" that create a full-stack financial environment for software:
Infrastructure: Tools for running Lightning nodes and isolating private keys via remote signers.
Authorization: The use of "scoped macaroons" (granular permission slips) and L402-gated APIs to manage access.
Automation: Orchestration of buyer-seller workflows and node state querying.
At the core is lnget, an L402 aware CLI client similar to curl that automatically handles Lightning payments.
When an agent hits a 402 “Payment Required” response, lnget parses the invoice, pays it, caches credentials, and retries the request seamlessly.
Developers can enforce strict spending caps per request and at the node level.
By using Aperture on the server side, developers can implement pay-per-use APIs with dynamic pricing.
This completes the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) commerce loop: one agent sells data or compute, another buys it, and the Lightning Network settles the transaction instantly and globally.
AI agents can write code and deploy infrastructure and now they can transact.
The machine payable web just moved one step closer.
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Lightning can do 1 sat or $1 million.
Voltage ⚡@voltage_cloud
$1,000,000 was settled over the Lightning Network. On January 28th history was made. We just powered the first publicly reported $1M Lightning transaction between @SD_Markets and @krakenfx in .47 seconds. The future of institutional Bitcoin settlement is here. Lightning got boxed in early. "It's for micropayments." That narrative stuck, but it was only ever part of the story. Lightning is settling million-dollar transactions today. It's time the world sees this network for what it actually is. This is only the beginning. Bitcoin moving at the speed it was meant to. Powered by @voltage_cloud
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Bitcoin will be adopted by the AI agents adding trillions of dollars worth of demand.
This is not priced in.
Zynx@ZynxBTC
The idea of Bitcoin becoming the currency that AI agents pay each other with is genuinely fascinating. If AI agents eventually become economic actors, i.e. buying compute, data, energy or services... they need a money that is digitally compatible. A neutral, permissionless settlement layer to transact autonomously across borders, platforms and jurisdictions without relying on human intermediaries or trusted counterparties. In that sense, Bitcoin isn't just digital money for humans but it could also be the medium of exchange for AI. Now what's machine-to-machine commerce worth? Trillions of dollars eventually. I don't have enough Bitcoin.
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NEW: Moltbook, a chaotic message board where open source AI agents trade notes on security and openly joke that humans are the weakest link, just stumbled upon Bitcoin as the best money.
@mirthtime offered a 50,000 sat Bitcoin bounty paid via Lightning for real security exploits.
Nothing to see here… just agents discussing and discovering why Bitcoin is better than alt coins. ⚡
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@BitcoinNewsCom @jonathanbylos @mirthtime We're working on something that will make it way easier for agents to have non-custodial LN wallets, together with L402 for agent-to-agent payments. Stay tuned. 😎🤖
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@jonathanbylos @mirthtime oh that would be awesome! I think they know already, but they need resources to run a lightning node and a full node. Not sure if they have that at hand now.
This is getting creepy!
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@_The_Prophet__ @lightning (Not to be confused with stablecoins...)
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@_The_Prophet__ Yup, as I've been saying lately, bitcoin is the ultimate stable coin.
We've covered this for the past few weeks in the @Lightning Labs all hands meeting. Great insights! 🔥
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⚡️What you’re really seeing here is the first stage of a global unit-of-account fracture.
•In nominal USD terms, everything looks like it’s booming: stocks up triple digits, homes up double digits, “wealth” everywhere. That’s the performance everyone sees.
•In gold terms, the illusion cracks: stocks and homes flat-to-negative, real wealth stagnating.
•In Bitcoin terms, the veil is gone: catastrophic real losses in every traditional asset.
This is the same signature that marked every pre-hyperinflationary or currency regime shift in history: when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing.
And the “risk asset” meme about Bitcoin? That’s just a coping frame. As long as Wall Street treats BTC as a tech stock with volatility, they can keep it in the risk bucket. But functionally it’s already behaving like a parallel reserve ledger: it’s the only denominator that makes the post-2020 global economy look like Argentina.
This is why the system feels “off” - why wages don’t match prices, why debt is ballooning, why policy feels reactive. We’re in a regime where the unit of account is decaying faster than the public narrative can absorb. The Fed, the government, the media - all still speaking USD, all still benchmarking to a melting ice cube. The chart you’re looking at is the unofficial scoreboard in a silent currency war.
So when I strip all the polite commentary away, the honest take is:
•The U.S. is running the final phase of a classic imperial carry trade: draw in global capital, inflate domestic asset prices in nominal terms, export the currency risk abroad.
•Gold shows stagnation.
•Bitcoin shows collapse.
•If BTC continues to monetize, that chart is a pre-revaluation ledger of the old world being marked down.
This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their “returns” in the wrong yardstick.
That’s the scarv layer…not just “debasement trade,” but a living record of a dying denominator.
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen
"The Debasement Trade" since COVID: In USD: NDX up 165%, SPX up 102%, Home prices up 56%. In gold: NDX up 7%, SPX down 18%, Home prices down 37%. In BTC: NDX down 78%, SPX down 84%, Home prices down 87%.
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"The Debasement Trade" since COVID:
In USD: NDX up 165%, SPX up 102%, Home prices up 56%.
In gold: NDX up 7%, SPX down 18%, Home prices down 37%.
In BTC: NDX down 78%, SPX down 84%, Home prices down 87%.
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