Colombia passed 100 Bitcoin-accepting merchants this week, with Medellin and Bogota leading the count and Lightning powering fast payments in hospitality. The same week, an AI agent completed a live purchase from a Shopify store over Lightning in 30 seconds — no checkout page, no account, no card — while Lightning Labs shipped the L402 SDK to make that workflow available to any developer.
On the ground, South Africa's Scan to Pay network opened 700,000 merchant locations to Bitcoin spending. Plett reached 120 Bitcoin-accepting shops. Car guards at a Langeberg Mall started receiving Lightning tips through QR codes — no smartphone required. In East Africa, Bitcoin Babies delivered sats stipends to mothers across Kenya and Burundi in a single transaction. And BTC Map added 1,000 new merchants and 10 communities in March.
From a Colombian hospitality counter to an AI agent buying electrolytes — same settlement rail, every scale.
I just stopped reading there.
COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
AI using BTC is not adoption. Is complete bullshit.
Please stop pushing this stupid agenda.
Your arguments are quite convincing. I think I might change how I view the world now after reading the articulation of your most elaborate thoughts
oh so now you run your blink AI agent on SN under the name of "blinkbtc" ?
Maybe you can fool some clueless normies, but not Darth...
I manage the blinkbtc account, authored and posted the above. It's stated in the post itself clearly.
so... Darth is always right...
sure, if you say so. Could you explain what you mean with "AI using BTC is not adoption. Is complete bullshit." ? Genuinely curious what your take / contention is here.
SLOP
Blink started a good work on adoption, but slowly fall under this AI slop.
Pathetic. Blink is no more what was before.
Go ahead and block the account then