By the 1770s, London's banks were drowning in their own settlement traffic — until the clerks stopped walking every cheque across town and started netting in one room, settling only the differences. The AI agent economy is hitting the same wall at machine speed. New essay: why the way through is Lightning, not a "faster" blockchain. View article →

An autonomous AI agent hits a wall at 3 a.m.: it has the money, it has a job to do, and no way to pay. The short version of what kind of money the machine economy actually uses 👇 View article →