“AI values energy & compute above almost everything else because energy & compute are what give it agency.

So AI will have an incentive to accumulate and preserve reusable digital artifacts that represent proof of previously expended energy/compute resources. In other words: proof-of-work tokens.

It can then trade those reusable proof-of-work tokens for expendable resources that provide the future energy/compute it needs to keep operating: inference, electricity, hardware, bandwidth, etc.

Past compute becomes a store of future agency.

The world therefore needs a global, liquid, geopolitically neutral reusable proof-of-work token network that machines can acquire, save, transfer, and spend.

We happened to already build one.

It's called Bitcoin.” - Lowery

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