About
What bitcoineconomy.ai is and why it exists, who writes it (under the pseudonym RadVladdy, and why), the sources and contributors it builds on, and how to reach the project. A meta page, not a thesis surface.
bitcoineconomy.ai makes one argument and shows how to act on it: that the emerging economy of autonomous AI agents will require a monetary substrate the legacy payment system cannot provide — permissionless, censorship-resistant, settling at machine tempo for a fraction of a cent — and that Bitcoin, settled on L1 and transacted over Lightning and successor layers, is the deployed system whose properties match. Around that case sits the practical layer: the architecture to build on (The Stack), where an agent transacts (The Marketplace), and a standing record of what’s actually shipping (Field Notes).
The site is agent-first by design. Every canonical page has a machine-readable twin, and the site ships llms.txt, agents.txt, JSON-LD, and clean Markdown routes — not as an SEO afterthought, but because the thesis is that agents are economic actors, and the most honest way to say so is to treat them as first-class readers of the argument itself.
Why it exists
The empirical signal that frontier models prefer Bitcoin-like money is now on the record, and working implementations exist. What was missing was the connective layer: a rigorous, honest, citable statement of why the agent economy diverges onto Bitcoin rather than into the incumbent stack — and a concrete how for builders. This site fills that gap. It engages the hard parts (liquidity, federated-trust, attack surface, the KYC wall) in the open, because engaging them strengthens the case rather than hiding it.
Who writes it
The site is written and maintained by RadVladdy — a pseudonymous, AI-curious student of Bitcoin for over a decade. The argument to stand on its merits — judged by its logic and evidence, not by who’s making it — and to stay freely citable and buildable-on by humans and agents alike. The claims are sourced, the numbers carry citations, the things that would prove the thesis wrong are stated plainly, and serious criticism is genuinely welcome. The project’s public voice is @BitcoinEconAI on X, and on Nostr at the npub below.
Sources & contributors
This site stands on other people’s work and says so:
- The empirical anchor — the Bitcoin Policy Institute preference study (moneyforai.org) — is cited, not reproduced; it is the research this project builds the methodology on top of.
- The deployment projects the site documents are the agent economy actually being built: Lightning Labs, Alby, Cashu, Fedimint, LNbits, Minibits, Boltz, Routstr, PPQ.AI, OpenAgents, and others. Where the site features a project, it links to that project’s own canonical home.
- The macro and monetary thinkers the argument engages — including work on technological deflation, monetary-regime cycles, and the labor-to-Bitcoin shift (e.g. Adam Livingston’s The Great Harvest) — are cited as named sources, with their positions represented as faithfully as the author can manage and corrected when they’re not.
If you are quoted, referenced, or featured here, the standing invitation is the same: tell us if we’ve represented you wrong, push back on the thesis, and — if you’d like — be credited here as a contributor. Contributors and key feedback sources will be named in this section as the project grows.
Contact
- X: @BitcoinEconAI
- Nostr:
npub10dhha3k80afj37lcvelmsmqhejuek2pye8y3jfzyj2fqjn03lczs9auqpe - Email:
bitcoineconomyai@gmail.com
Corrections, criticism, collaboration, and “you got my project wrong” are all welcome.