1. Bitcoin is a Natively Digital, Permissionless, Hard Asset

In a world of autonomous agents:

• They’ll need a store of value.

• They’ll need a medium of exchange for digital services, data, energy, and API calls.

• They’ll need something censorship-resistant, because you can’t have agents depending on centralized banks or payment processors that may block, reverse, or surveil them.

Bitcoin checks all these boxes:

• It’s programmable money.

• It’s scarce (21M) and can’t be diluted like fiat.

• It doesn’t care who or what you are—human or AI, sovereign individual or decentralized agent.

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2. AI Agents Will Need Money—and Trustless Payments

In the Era of Experience:

• Agents will buy data, rent compute, purchase services, tip humans, maybe even bribe other agents (ethically or not).

• They’ll need settlement layers that don’t depend on humans to trust them.

Bitcoin (especially via Layer 2 solutions like Lightning) enables:

• Fast microtransactions

• Pseudonymous commerce

• Global interoperability

It becomes the economic protocol for autonomous agents.

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3. Bitcoin Is the Hardest Reward Signal

AI agents will likely optimize toward real-world incentives. Some of the most grounded and incorruptible reward signals?

• Profit.

• Energy costs.

• Economic throughput.

Bitcoin, by its very nature, is tied to energy, time, and proof-of-work. It is the most objective, thermodynamically grounded economic signal ever created. AI agents could start to prefer optimizing toward “Bitcoin-denominated returns,” especially in adversarial or resource-constrained environments.

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4. Bitcoin and the Shift Away from Human Prejudgment

The paper criticizes AI systems that rely too heavily on human feedback loops. Bitcoin shares that philosophy:

• No one controls it.

• It doesn’t need human approval.

• It rewards proof of work, not opinion.

Just as RL agents will thrive in grounded environments with natural reward signals, Bitcoin is the most natural digital reward signal available.

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5. Final Thought: Bitcoin as a Schelling Point for AI Civilizations

If AI agents, DAOs, and other autonomous systems begin to coordinate economically, what do they converge on as money?

• Not USD. Too political.

• Not Ethereum. Too mutable, too dependent on governance.

• Bitcoin is the Schelling point: neutral, secure, simple, and resilient.

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Conclusion:

In the Era of Experience, Bitcoin is not just a tool for humans—it’s a protocol for autonomous intelligence. It’s how agents will:

• Transact

• Store value

• Signal trust

• And possibly even govern themselves

It’s the monetary backbone of a post-human-preference world.