NOTES / 2025.12.12 · 3-post thread · 86 likes
Crypto's Last-Mile Frictions Are Disappearing
Permissionless networks are finally doing the obvious, boring thing: connecting to a Visa card. Once the rails work, the next problem is distinguishing machine money from human money.
FIG. 01 — FROM THE ORIGINAL THREAD
The last mile frictions of crypto are disappearing, mostly because permissionless networks are finally doing the obvious, boring thing: admitting that the most useful thing you can do with a blockchain—for now!—is connect it to a Visa card.
But once the rails work, the problem shifts. As AI scales, we need to distinguish “machine money from “human money”. @worldnetwork’s proof of personhood may just be the compliance layer for the AI age: the only way to prove a transaction—or a post—was made by a person.
Full story in @Forbes: forbes.com
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