Shone Anstey, CEO and Chairman of LQWD Technologies, joins BMTV to explain why AI agents will need to pay each other and why Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is the rail for that future. He walks through nodes, channels, and micropayments, and why an agent seeking an open peer-to-peer network chooses Bitcoin.
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Chapters:
00:00 Lightning Is How AI Agents Will Pay Each Other
00:31 How Lightning Nodes and Channels Actually Work
01:42 Why Agents Prefer Bitcoin Over Stablecoins
03:09 Bitcoin as the Internet’s Trust Layer
05:00 Ask an Agent and It Chooses Bitcoin
06:34 LQWD’s Treasury 2.0 Routing Business
08:36 Agents and Robots Will Authenticate With Lightning
10:14 Harnesses and the Machine-to-Machine Economy
12:24 Why This AI Boom Isn’t Just Another Dot-Com
14:03 Project Arclight Runs Lightning Without Humans
15:41 Midterms Won’t Stop Unstoppable Tech
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