The Digital Playground or the Panopticon? Let’s get something straight: when Peters cheers on "Autonomous AI Agents transacting at vast scale, without the need for banks," he’s not announcing freedom — he’s describing a prison being assembled in broad daylight. He’s hyped that AI bots using Google’s AP2 and Coinbase’s x402 tech can now make payments using stablecoins “at the speed of code.” But speed isn’t freedom — it’s control, especially when those rails are traceable, programmable, and inherently surveilled. Stablecoins, especially dollar-backed ones like USDC or USDT, are not decentralized freedom tokens. They are tightly regulated instruments tied to fiat banking systems and increasingly under the thumb of state and corporate interests. You think you're escaping banks? You're not.…
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