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Guy’s Take #68 – Lightning & the Ai Economy

Ai agents are going to be able to seek out, delegate, and pay for micro services from an ecosystem of other agents & services. But the resources being share will be delivered instantly, and irreversibly in the form of compute cycles. Only an instant, bearer, and irreversible payment method that scales massively will be able to meet the demands and provide a backbone for the economy of Ai exchange. In this Guy’s Take episode, I argue why I think Lightning is going to eat ALL of this ecosystem, and why fiat is incompatible. This is Guy’s Take #68 – Lightning & the Ai Economy…

Definitely don’t miss the conversation that got me headed down this rabbit hole on Ai Unchained: https://youtu.be/hI19IaODZPA

Bobby’s thread with further links to explore on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/iBobbyShell/status/1671485924218228737?s=20

More resources to explore on this topic:
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-07-05-l402-langchain/

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