参不透 (@ghyy316386) “AI Agents are now paying for their own inference costs, and the payment method t” — TopicDigg

AI Agents are now paying for their own inference costs, and the payment method they’re using is the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Lightning Labs has launched pi402, which lets coding Agents pay for AI inference services over Lightning on a pure usage basis—without needing to register an account, link a bank card, or obtain an API key first. What’s interesting about this direction isn’t simply that “AI can use BTC,” but the granularity of payment: an Agent can settle for a single request, or even for finer-grained token usage. In the future, when Agents buy data, rent compute, or call services from one another, requiring a human to top up a balance and approve every transaction will become a bottleneck. Machine-native payments may therefore emerge as a new layer of infrastructure competition.