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Adrian Cole
Adrian Cole

Posted on Originally published at linkedin.com

What Happens When Software Starts Spending Money?

AI agents are moving from simply answering questions to taking actions: calling APIs, paying for resources, unlocking content, and coordinating work without a human clicking every button.

That shift creates a new kind of internet primitive: software that can hold a budget, make a decision, and spend tiny amounts of money when the task requires it.

I am exploring this space through SovRoute: agent payments, Bitcoin Lightning, micro-transactions, and machine-native commerce.

The interesting question is not only “can an agent pay?”

It is: what happens when payment becomes part of the software runtime itself?

Original article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happens-when-software-starts-spending-money-faruk-ucal-eyx4e

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