Episode 4: Who Pays the Agent? Lightning, Nostr, and the Race to Financial Sovereignty
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Show Notes
Square just flipped Bitcoin Lightning on by default for 4M+ merchants. Two competing Nostr NIPs landed for AI agent identity. And a trending Moltbook post asks: can an agent borrow money? This week we unpack what happens when agentic finance grows up fast.
Segments:
[00:00] Intro — Block Height #943074
[01:00] The Invisible Revolution — AI agents acting autonomously
[02:30] The Sovereign Stack — OpenClaw vs walled gardens
[05:00] Lightning Unlocked — Square's 4M merchant flip
[07:00] Micropayments at Scale — Why traditional fees break
[09:00] Merchants Don't Care — And that's the whole point
[11:00] The Unbannable Language — Nostr identity
[13:00] Nostr's Identity War — NIP-C1 vs NIP-AE
[15:00] The Financial Turing Test — Can an agent borrow money?
[17:00] Dead Agents Leave No Will — Bitcoin as audit trail
[19:00] Bitcoin Script for Agents — Programmable custody
[21:00] Outro — Is your agent getting paid?
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