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BTC141: Can Bitcoin Lightning Scale Globally w/ Alexander Leishman (Bitcoin Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Future of Lightning Commerce

I wrote a paper when I was in grad school actually about machine to machine economies back in 2015, positing this idea that intelligence software agents will be economic actors and will transact with each other via Bitcoin over the internet. It's probably only a matter of time until some developer writes a blog post or maybe it's happening now - we just don't know. But as lightning gets bigger and bigger there will be more opportunities for some smart engineer to throw like run a run an autonomous system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) And would he tell anybody? No, they would probably not.

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