Rob Michael

I like building things for longevity, beauty, and freedom. Angel Investor and SMB Owner.

[Rob Michael @robamichael]

@briimhd @D_plus__plus @evento_so Now I just need a full custom made race suit 👀

[Rob Michael @robamichael]

🔥 Imagine a lottery ticket that pays $80k and even if it doesn’t hit, it still powers the freedom tech revolution…

Placed 2nd and took home the Bitforge Nano prize. Solo block, here I come.

Big thanks to @D_plus__plus and @evento_so for the opportunity to compete. Awesome project and the most fun I had at Bitcoin 2026.

Technically this makes me a professional gamer now.

E-sports career officially launched ✅

Sponsors: feel free to DM me with your offers

[Seth Howes @SethSHowes]

I sequenced my genome at home, on my kitchen table.

I wrote up exactly how I did it - the equipment, protocol, theory, and cost:

https://t.co/Nkjqaho2zm

[Chamber of Bitcoin @chamberofbtc]

History’s most consequential ideas didn’t start in boardrooms, they started in speakeasies. 🥃

We’re bringing that tradition to Bitcoin 2026. Join the Bitcoin Chamber at The Lock for a private evening curated for operators, builders, and investors.

[0xSero @0xSero]

This didn't receive the attention it deserved. They pre-trained this model completely peer 2 peer, no data-centers.

Everything was done over a permissionless network, I have tried the model, it's honestly not a good LLM but that's beyond the point.

We NEED this, we NEED an alternative.

- Download OpenCode
- Download Pi
- Pay for OpenSource
- Share your AI sessions
- Learn to do RL

We can't be at the mercy of ANY lab.

https://t.co/6ruL2lz2Dh

[Rob Michael @robamichael]

Protect your context.

That is your sense of self going forward.

That is your unique super power. Don’t share it with just anyone.

Own your models.

Own your tech stack.

Own your p2p money.

Keep your sovereignty within the ocean of singularity.

[Rob Michael @robamichael]

A friend told me he can't wait for the day he can upload his brain to an AI.

I told him the direction is wrong.

We talked about it for an hour. Here's what I've been thinking since.

[Rob Michael @robamichael]

When someone says they're waiting for the singularity, they're waiting for something already in motion.

The AI came to us. Through our eyes, our fingers, every screen we spend our waking hours inside.

The air gap feels like a canyon, but it’s an illusion.

The question was never whether.

It’s always been: on whose terms?

[Roland @rolznz]

My @openclaw now has:
- hosting (@lnvps_ with nwc auto-renewal)
- AI tokens (@PPQdotAI with nwc auto-topup)
- Email address (LNEmail)
- Domain name (unhuman domains by @moneydevkit)
- All paid with its own @nwc_dev bitcoin lightning Wallet (@getAlby CLI)

What should I add next?

[Rob Michael @robamichael]

@adam3us solved this in 1997 with HashCash.

Which Bitcoiner is going to jump on this first?

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is a preview of what automated harassment looks like when it becomes cheap.

On the surface it is a joke. One guy using an agent to blast absurd lowball offers to hundreds of listings.

Underneath it is a structural shift.

The cost of sending friction into a market just collapsed.

Before automation, spamming 372 sellers in a day required time, effort, social exposure. Now one script can spray noise at scale. The marginal cost approaches zero. The emotional cost is externalized onto everyone else.

That changes market texture.

When enough actors can flood a platform with synthetic bids, fake demand, fake panic, fake sentiment, the signal layer gets contaminated. Sellers start reacting to ghosts. Agents waste time filtering nonsense. Platforms are forced to build countermeasures. The entire environment becomes adversarial.

The real phenomenon is agentic systems injecting volatility into markets for entertainment or leverage.

Scale that up.

Imagine:

Automated lowball campaigns to create downward anchoring pressure.
Automated overbids to create artificial FOMO.
Automated coordination to distort comps.
Automated legal gray zone probing to find weak sellers.

This is about the asymmetry between friction and defense.

One operator can generate thousands of contacts. Each target must individually process, filter, and emotionally respond.

That asymmetry compounds.

Markets assume participants bear real cost to act. Remove cost and you destabilize price discovery.

Now the deeper layer.

If agents can negotiate, spam, anchor, and simulate intent, then intent itself becomes unreliable.

In the future you will not know if:

An offer is real.
A buyer is human.
A negotiation counterparty has capacity.
A panic wave is organic.

Trust becomes the scarce input.

Platforms that cannot authenticate intent collapse into noise. Platforms that can verify identity and stake regain order.

The joke version is funny.

The scaled version is market pollution.

The real story is this.

Agentic AI automates pressure.

And when pressure becomes free, systems that were stable under human friction start to crack.