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Spiral is adding Bitcoin payments to Mesh LLM so machines can buy AI compute

Spiral is adding Bitcoin payments to Mesh LLM so machines can buy AI compute
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The Block-backed developer group wants GPU owners and AI agents to settle compute bills over Lightning without banks in the middle Spiral is building Bitcoin payments into Mesh LLM, its peer-to-peer AI inference network. The goal is to let machines buy and sell AI compute from each other without touching traditional payment rails. As of early October 2026, the payment feature is still under active development. Nothing has shipped yet, but the direction is clear: Spiral wants AI agents to have a wallet, not a corporate expense account.

First reported by Crypto Briefing. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.

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