Agent Buys Its Own LLM with Bitcoin: A Fascinating Experiment
Even-Explanation-133 · reddit · 2026-08-13
A Reddit user shares an experiment where an agent is given Bitcoin over the Lightning Network and autonomously selects the best LLM based on task complexity and remaining funds. To solve the 'need an LLM to choose an LLM' problem, they built a 'reptilian brain'—a small local Qwen model plus a Bitcoin-paid LLM broker. Results are only roughly reliable but amazing. The author seeks similar projects.
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