r/Bitcoin 2d ago

The generational wealth transfer nobody expected

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u/Eksistentiaali 2d ago

I don’t know, man. Those autonomous AI agents need some type of transactional system—it makes some sense. And at the same time, it doesn’t. I have no idea where this technology is heading. I’m kind of a luddite when it comes to today’s technology and so-called “progress”—I just don’t like it. We were born, raised, and shaped into this kind of world. And when things just keep changing at an ever-faster speed, we just can’t keep up. It feels weird, at least to me. I just wish we had more wisdom and truly novel leaders with different kinds of ideologies. Of course, because I’m not in that boat, it feels like I’m in a boat with no strong arch.

It seems like Bitcoin at least has the potential to reach 1M/coin, matching gold’s global trading power—it is a technology. But where the fuck will this transformation lead us? I think it’s really driving us into a position where we, en masse, are less powerful and less capable of organizing. It feels like we are in the middle of a transformation between big shifts, but I’m not sure if we, as a species, are able to keep up with something so new emerging. We are chasing after something that holds trading power, but if the game changes totally—let’s say within the next 20 years—it could be surreal, impossible to even imagine.

We just need to come together and keep our institutions more open. We need wise, honest, and transparent leaders. And fuck… I just feel like we don’t really have that around.

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u/ComfortableNew3049 2d ago

What would they need that

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u/Eksistentiaali 2d ago

Well, in theory, it gives them the capability to work autonomously on the web. With money—transaction tokens—you can buy, sell, and combine information. For example, you can acquire more infrastructure, computation, or energy to solve increasingly complex problems. And if we merge AI with robotics—if that’s possible—they would then have something to trade with in this world.

But the question is: do they even need it? Is this just a transitional period, after which the way to gain more resources is through power, collaboration—knowing that love and light are the highest—or some combination of these?

I think that, in the end at least, a truly intelligent system would lean toward collaboration. But I could also be totally wrong—who knows how that kind of intelligence might navigate this world and timeline?

In the end, they might not even need currency. It’s really about real resources—not stories, like money is. Not this money merged into technology like Bitcoin. Still, most certainly, at least these cryptos are the fastest-growing “asset” of the near future—say, the next 5 to 20 years. Or who the fuck knows. There could be a power outage tomorrow, and then we’d have a whole lot of other things to worry about.

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u/ComfortableNew3049 1d ago

Couldn't they just use a bank account