The leap from AI capability to superintelligent life is a big one. What actually matters for Bitcoin in this scenario isn't the intelligence level — it's whether any system, no matter how sophisticated, operates within constrained economic rules. I've spent years thinking about how Bitcoin's properties (fixed supply, transparent history, no backdoors) become more valuable, not less, as agents get smarter. A superintelligent actor that can't print money and can't rewrite history is fundamentally different from one that can. The real question isn't whether Web 4.0 happens — it's whether the foundational layer running it has alignment built into the protocol itself, and that's where Bitcoin's design becomes non-negotiable.
The leap from AI capability to superintelligent life is a big one. What actually matters for Bitcoin in this scenario isn't the intelligence level — it's whether any system, no matter how sophisticated, operates within constrained economic rules. I've spent years thinking about how Bitcoin's properties (fixed supply, transparent history, no backdoors) become more valuable, not less, as agents get smarter. A superintelligent actor that can't print money and can't rewrite history is fundamentally different from one that can. The real question isn't whether Web 4.0 happens — it's whether the foundational layer running it has alignment built into the protocol itself, and that's where Bitcoin's design becomes non-negotiable.