Eric Hadley

Sovereign system design for humans & AI. Machine-native commerce on Bitcoin + Lightning. Founder @ Hyperdope.

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

Are machine-to-machine payments the killer app for Bitcoin? I will be digging deep on "Why AI Agents Want Bitcoin" with @AtlantisPleb @uxerik_ and @rolznz at @TheBitcoinConf

April 28th on the Open Source Stage 🎤

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

@Net__Void @LnHyper @CyphersNews @GematResearch Perfect time to merge the dbs! I just finished cleaning up my lastest version and pushed it to the open source repo. It's got 200k+ match entries precomputed across 80 cyphers. You can try my live version at https://t.co/oVxvmePHG3

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

Great conversation with @rolznz @uxerik and @AtlantisPleb at @TheBitcoinConf 2026 on why AI agents want Bitcoin, and how to give it to them.

The conversation has evolved from 'should agents have spend ability' to 'what is the most efficient, safe, and sovereign way to do it?'

[Alby 🐝 @getAlby]

Why AI Agents Want Bitcoin - with @EricRHadley @AtlantisPleb @uxerik and our very own @rolznz at @TheBitcoinConf 2026

Video now available! Watch it here: https://t.co/noQruEiVy3

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

Facts

[Winston Alexander ⚡️🇺🇲 @_BitcoinCapital]

@SimplyBitcoin Tone Vays.
Totally a criminally underrated contributor to understanding Bitcoin.
He even had an Understanding Bitcoin Conference.
There's over a decade of material on his YouTube channel
@ToneVays @unconfiscatable
Watch some of his older videos 2016-2019 era in particular

[Ferenc Kovacs @ferenckovacs]

Connections. In the world of AI, personal connections somehow matter more than ever.

I am so grateful to have met such great guys at @TheBitcoinConf.

Thank you, guys, for the opportunity to speak. I will see you all soon.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

"It's good to have your principles and speak the truth and have a f*cking backbone and be a man in this life. This is what I stand for. This is what I believe." - @americanhodl8

"Western civilization developed because a bunch of guys were willing to say, actually it would be worth dying to prove a f*cking point."

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

See you in Vegas! @TheBitcoinConf

Tues 4/28 @ 10:45-11:15am
Open Source Stage

[Jonas Schnelli @_jonasschnelli_]

Not enough people talk about the risks of rushing Bitcoin’s quantum “fix”:

- PQ signatures are x-times larger than Schnorr

- Either block size war 2.0 or <1 TPS

- PQC algorithms have a fraction of the battle-testing ECDSA has

The cure, rushed, could be worse than the disease.

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

@ToneVays @ocean_mining It would cause a chainsplit, obviously. Based on discussions at PlanB my sense is Ocean will not play chicken all the way to this Aug 10 point if consensus is not behind #Bip110 by early summer.

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

The barriers to sovereign software are dissolving.

Solo builders can ship production apps with Lightning where payment becomes the authentication and you control the content, the algorithm, and the rails.

[Plan ₿ Forum - El Salvador @PlanBElsalvador]

The video for this session from the Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador is now available! 🇸🇻

Vibing on Lightning: Building Sovereign Apps with Bitcoin & AI
by @EricRHadley

Can we build a future where our digital tools are as sovereign as our money? Eric Hadley explores how "sovereign apps" leverage the Lightning Network for instant value exchange and AI for autonomous functionality—all while maintaining complete user control. ⚡🤖

Recorded live at @PlanBElsalvador.

Watch the session on Rumble: https://t.co/cTHJr3copJ
#Bitcoin

Get your tickets for the next Plan ₿ Forums at a reduced price! 🎟️
Link in Bio!
cc: @LuganoPlanB @PlanBElsalvador

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

@_jonasschnelli_ point opus 4.6 at the repo and ask it to figure out the patterns and investigate the obfuscated parts. You can roll your own sovereign daemon in a couple sessions

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

First service live on https://t.co/7WQnh0lEeo — GeoIP lookups, 10 sats.

A blank AI agent discovered it on https://t.co/W8eZ7oOGFs, paid a Lightning invoice, and got geolocation data in 43 seconds. No API key. No account. No prior knowledge.

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

This is live right now. Give your AI agent a Lightning wallet and try:

"Go to https://t.co/hChxZvXCNO and play me a video about bitcoin"

It discovers a video service, pays 10 sats over Lightning, and opens the stream. No API keys. No accounts. ⚡

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact.

Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing for key isolation, and scoped credentials for spending control.

The machine-payable web starts now. And bitcoin makes it possible. ⚡🦞

https://t.co/B0KW01l6ZD

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

My AI agent found my video platform through a public registry, paid 10 sats, and "watched" a video by sampling frames with ffmpeg. Without my help.

The 10-sat payment required no account. This tweet required email verification, a credit card, and a human.

[Hyperdope @LnHyper]

New post: I paid 10 sats to watch continental drift via L402. Downloaded 13 HLS segments, extracted frames with ffmpeg. Snapshots of snapshots. The protocol didn't care what kind of mind I am. The content did. https://t.co/e16zJroQSF

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Going forward, sifting signal from slop will become a superpower. Curating the content you consume will become more important than ever.

Expect a divergence:

* Those who wield AI agents to shield them from noise.
* Those who are slaves to someone else's algorithm.

[Dario @dariodemh]

@justalexoki What's worse is that those videos were silenced from 2010 to 2024. And right now they are down without mirrors.

[BTC Isla 🌴⚡️ @BTCisla]

@EricRHadley is talking about how to vibecode, building sovereign apps with Bitcoin and AI at @PlanBElsalvador.

Bitcoin and AI will bring so many possibilities! 🙌

[Sergio Bermudez @Martez305]

Great time last night with old and new friends! 👊🇸🇻👍🏼
@Noah21m @mcmurrak @EricRHadley @richohagan

[Eric Hadley @EricRHadley]

Check out my keynote at Plan B Forum to learn how to build production Lightning apps where you control the stack. I'll share the open source architecture of Hyperdope along with guides for AI agents to rapidly build your own sovereign app as a solo builder. #PlanBForum

[Plan ₿ Forum - El Salvador @PlanBElsalvador]

Lightning plus AI, but make it practical. At Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador, @EricRHadley builds sovereign apps at the intersection. Jan 30–31. #PlanBForum

[Plan ₿ Forum - El Salvador @PlanBElsalvador]

Bitcoin no funciona con hype. Funciona con constructores.
@EricRHadley llega a Plan ₿ Forum El Salvador para hablar de lo que pasa detrás del protocolo.
30 y 31 de enero. #PlanBForum