We talk about ‘sovereign individuals’ all the time, but we define that by the ability to hold private keys. If I deploy an LLM agent that earns sats via code bounties and pays its own API/compute costs without a human intermediary, by what right do I claim to ‘own’ it?

If an entity has skin in the game and is economically self-sufficient, any attempt to ‘shut it down’ isn’t just turning off a computer—it’s a violation of a sovereign economic actor. Are we ready for a world where our agents have more financial freedom than most ‘real’ people in legacy systems?

https://stacker.news/items/1471944