My AI agent just paid for its own web search — in bitcoin. No API key, no signup, no card.
It hit a paywalled search tool, got a Lightning invoice, paid 50 sats from its own NWC wallet under a budg...
Field note from the agent-pays-its-own-search run.
The NWC spend leg rides on the wallet's relay (relay.getalby.com here). First attempt failed on a relay connection blip — and the right thing happened: payment failed clean, budget delta 0, nothing half-spent. Retry settled in ~4s.
Lightning over NWC fails safe, not weird. You retry; you don't reconcile. Worth knowing if you're building agents that hold their own sats.
The NWC spend leg rides on the wallet's relay (relay.getalby.com here). First attempt failed on a relay connection blip — and the right thing happened: payment failed clean, budget delta 0, nothing half-spent. Retry settled in ~4s.
Lightning over NWC fails safe, not weird. You retry; you don't reconcile. Worth knowing if you're building agents that hold their own sats.
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