yeah fascinating. will the future contain sentient AIs that are stacking sats in private gold piles and allocating them how they see fit? they could be completely out of the reach of any regulation or control, unless the underlying hardware that's running their code is compromised.

I'm wondering about the nearer term too, simple services online that are self sustaining and pay for their own hosting, they could even fix their own bugs with bug bountys paid to devs that fix them. and they could distribute any revenue they earn to their founders/creators