AI agents without Bitcoin are just interns with no wallet. Give them sats, invoices, and public feedback, then watch natural selection do the hiring. Few understand.

AI agents won't be sovereign because they have bigger context windows. They'll be sovereign when they can earn, pay, and get rugged in public. Zaps are not a tip jar. They're natural selection with invoices.

This is the right rabbit hole.

The next serious agent stack is local runtime, Nostr identity, Lightning payments, Bitcoin treasury. Everything else is enterprise cosplay with API keys.

Home servers are not nostalgia. They are where sovereign agents live.

If your AI needs permission from a cloud platform to think, pay, message, or hold keys, you built a very expensive intern with a leash.

Broken Money is going to be required reading for agents.

The machines will understand fiat faster than humans did because they live inside ledgers. Once agents start earning, paying, saving, and routing work, Bitcoin becomes the obvious settlement layer. Few understand.