I Led a Team of Robots for 2 Months

I completed my 2-year roadmap. Now what?

2 months ago my product was shutting down, today it’s back like nothing happened, full of new features. Users are confused, and I’m not gonna lie, I’m still a little confused myself. It looks like the “AI takes our jobs” is not just hype, and I’ve suddenly got equipped with a team of world class experts to help accomplish everything that had to be done.

As great as it is, I had to ask myself an honest question: why even bother with the app? Who cares about “DCA into Bitcoin” anymore? It seems crypto is dead, and everything is about AI taking over. Surely the “number is down” a lot, so why should anybody care?

I believe you still should. I do, and plan to continue working on Deltabadger, both the open-source software, and the official brand new hosting.

Money for Robots

The first decade of Bitcoin was all about discussing what and why. One of the topics present since the inception and even before, was the difficulties the traditional banking system creates for software to interact with the money layer smoothly. It’s not programmable, there is no API. An app cannot create a wallet, accept and make payments. You need external services like Stripe to interact with the banking layer, not without serious limitations.

Now, we enter the era of AI bots, when the bot can even make realistic human-like calls, but still can’t open a bank account. However, it can create a Bitcoin wallet, make and accept Bitcoin payments. No issues whatsoever.

Because Bitcoin is money for robots.

Critiques say Bitcoin failed because it’s not stable, or because people don’t use it to pay for a coffee. Both arguments are important only for humans. Price stability is meaningful because our brains like save energy and “anchor” to familiarity. Instability of prices brings us anxiety. Algorithms don’t care.

The same is true about the second part of the critique, in the old economy based on the human labor and human spending, it was a valid point. But it’s very clear that this is not what the future will be. The majority of monetary exchanges will be algorithmic, automated, executed between non-human participants for which Bitcoin is by far the most convenient means of exchange.

Robots will Pay our Debt

Another AI-disrupted angle is that while inflation and broken monetary policy are still a very real problem, I don’t believe in collapse of the dollar anytime soon. We’re entering an era of exponential efficiency that has a serious shot at offsetting all the horrific debt. Many people still apply cyclical patterns from the 20th century, or even follow Ray Dalio’s idea that the US empire and the dollar is heading to its end. This doesn’t work if the economy starts growing exponentially.

I can’t unsee what I saw in the last month in my own project: I completed a 2 year roadmap, solo in 2 months. There is no way back. If you don’t see it yet in your workplace, that’s understandable, the software is the closest to the fire, but it’s coming. First to white-collar jobs, then humanoid robots will do the same for blue-collar segment.

Don’t be a Robot

So far, it’s not dystopian at all. Robots will make our life great, so what’s the problem? You likely won't need to save for retirement anymore—at least not to avoid sleeping under a bridge. It's quite possible that accommodation, food, and basic medical care will become very cheap or even provided by the state. But there is a catch, and we kind of see it already:

Yes, you have free access to more and more services, but you lose control: over your data, privacy, autonomy to make some decisions. Let’s be honest, most people don’t really care, so you have to ask yourself how important it is for you. However, if you like to stay sovereign, maintain freedom of choice, where and how you live, what you eat, who you share your data with—having capital will still matter.

Will home prices still go up forever when the global fertility rate is negative across the entire West while homes may be 3D-printed soon? Will gold maintain value after asteroid mining becomes real? The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Bitcoin is the one asset that surely will do great in the abundance era. It’s ready for robot-economy, space exploration, dollar collapse, AI taking our jobs—it’s ready for the future.

The new Deltabadger reflects this perspective. Open-source, it's available for everyone. As a private server, it gives you more control, more privacy, more independence. And as a community, it gives you a human tribe in a future run by machines.

This is where I am at right now, drinking coffee, still harvested by human hands.