really enjoyed this from matt balez. a few things stuck: i learned subcent api fees via usdc on base is easy. a few weeks ago in vegas i highlighted this a unique value prop for bitcoin agentic payments. i was wrong. still true that stablecoins are inherently censorable, and freezable at any time. they don't optimize for human freedom. stablecoin privacy is very spooky. the fact that you can feed an agent's etherscan history to chatgpt and id the merchant should scare everyone. "open source AI deserves open source money" is a banger. how do we meme this into existence? watching steinberger go anti "crypto" was rough. surprised usdt on lightning wasn't covered. i know usdc has the regulatory momentum rn but @speedwallet 's wallet's usdt/lightning ux is quite good. they address the volatility and short term usd obligation point all on the ln network. we can have a convo about the tradeoffs re censorship resistance, but i think bitcoin builders can learn a lot from speed.

The Best Money For Agents

Spiral PM Mat Balez weighs the relative merits of stablecoins vs bitcoin for agentic payments and nudges us towards the more neutral option.

spoke at vegas a few weeks ago on lightning and ecash. @Shinobi moderated, @EVAN KALOUDIS and Alex held it down on @ZEUS and @Fedi . fun one. thanks for having me.

gm @Derek Ross

thanks @SoapMiner

the fbi director and acting attorney general were invited to give a talk on code as speech. the developers who wrote the code are in prison. #freesamourai

ecash nfc tap to pay with macadamia wallet on a square terminal. open protocol. open money.

russian satirists have mastered the art of writing around the censor. they do it while being funny too. that's what artists are for.

i like paying with cash. i see it as form of speech and a way of expressing freedom. no permission, no chain of where i was and what i bought.

i hope somewhere there’s an animal no person has ever seen. and i hope no one ever does.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

noticed in switzerland the pos prompts for a tip before you tap. new one for me. numo now has 1:1 parity with this flow.

It's deep but it's not that deep. the blue skies are for good vibes, the grey skies are for when you want to die.

working on cashu(.)me swift native.

some older @hoseki designs from last year.

we released a new version of numo. added some features that merchants explicitly requested. i'm still working on the great numo ui clean up. hopefully next release will see it merged.

spent 4 hours trying to port a design system from figma to code. wanted to be meticulous about it, got all the variables right, spacing, typography, color tokens, all perfectly mapped. exported all the tokens as a json, dropped a design system md file in the claude directory before getting started. still not great. figma mcp is genuinely bad at this.

the neon genesis eva ui revival is a very personally targeted trend.

we can still build a public payments infrastructure for the internet. public as in available to everyone, like the internet. that window won’t stay open. we must code faster. we must design better tools. we must compete with the best payment ux.

something i'm really proud of with numo: paying feels exactly like apple pay. press one button on your iphone, tap, beep, done. perfectly private. bitcoin as everyday money.

primal following notifications have become totally unusable. everyday i’m followed by like 50 bots.