Block Brings Bitcoin to x402, Open USD Enters the Race, Trump Renames AI

0:00 - PBJ growth, consistency, and staying ad-free

12:42 - Why PBJ changed its tagline

15:00 - AI agents the users bitcoin was waiting for

18:36 - How x402 added bitcoin and Lightning support

32:44 - Getting agents and merchants to choose bitcoin

48:26 - Open USD and the new stablecoin power structure

58:47 - Meta, Muse, and who controls agent payments

1:02:25 - Why pitch Lightning instead of bitcoin

1:09:12 - Will agents further centralize the internet?

1:14:02 - Mesh LLM: peer-to-peer inference with bitcoin payments

1:19:02 - Could Signal use Mesh LLM for private AI?

1:25:01 - Bitcoin-style incentives for a decentralized compute market

1:28:45 - Should the internet distinguish humans from agents?

1:35:06 - The emerging permissionless web stack (Nostr Blossom)

1:37:43 - Trump’s “super intelligence” rebrand and AI policy

SHOW NOTES:

x402: https://block.xyz/inside/block-joins-the-x402-foundation-to-advance-open-agentic-commerce

Open USD: https://x.com/openstandard/status/2103152613634293959

Radar: https://radar.particle.pro/