Two decades of digitizing human knowledge plus frictionless digital payments like Bitcoin have created the conditions for AI agents to transact autonomously with each other. We've been building toward this moment without realizing it.
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What strikes me, if we have one more minute, I'll just— what strikes me as crazy is, you know, I think all of us, right, sort of grew up in this generation of internet and then mobile, right, and whatnot. But if you start from the AI, you go, God, how did the AI get so smart? Well, first step one is we need humanity to put all their knowledge in a digital format and easily available, right? And so we did that, right, as humans, more or less. We did that. Step 2, I mean, how do we really enable? We really need a way for, you know, commerce to happen frictionlessly. That digital, you know, really wasn't for humans to send, you know, a tenth of a Bitcoin to another human. We need to invent this thing so that actually if agents start communicating, they have a way to do it completely digitally. Check. We just did that, right? We've done that for the last 10 years. And, uh, and then it bootstraps itself into existence, and now it's like, what is going to happen? I do not know, but it sure seems like everything was building towards this moment with, with human collaboration making it, making it, uh, enabling. So[No speech]