Bitcoin could become the reward primitive for AI agents, with micropayment-linked traces
curious_vii · x · 2026-07-28
The author argues that Bitcoin is a good candidate for a general reward primitive for AI models because it is scarce and has unusual monetary properties.
They propose that if micro-payments become a first-class primitive, incremental metered inference could become feasible, and agent traces should reference the underlying inference transactions. In that setup, one could reconstruct causal provenance from the “efficient cause” to the final outcome, use the resulting data to update weights or instructions, and preserve private-property style control through privileged access to those traces.
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