While true comprehension of Bitcoin is rare (under 1%), adoption by entities like the state of Texas is driven by signals like price, longevity, and endorsements from trusted firms like BlackRock, not a fundamental grasp of the technology itself.

As AI makes it easy to fake video and audio, blockchain's immutable and decentralized ledger offers a solution. Creators can 'mint' their original content, creating a verifiable record of authenticity that nobody—not even governments or corporations—can alter.

The internet was designed for human interaction, actively discouraging bots. The next evolution will reverse this, with AI agents becoming the primary users. This requires re-architecting everything from user interfaces to business models, with crypto likely serving as the native payment rail for these autonomous agents.

The easy-to-understand and demonstrable power of AI has captured investor attention and capital that might otherwise go to Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin's significant educational lift, AI's value is immediately apparent, making it a "sexier" and more accessible investment thesis for those with disposable capital, thus acting as a narrative competitor.

As AI agents become sophisticated, they'll need to pay for services. Traditional banking is too slow and fragmented for them. Crypto, as the internet's native money, provides the instant, global, low-fee rails for AI agents to transact with each other and with web services, creating a major new use case.

AI's energy-intensive nature creates a new, powerful stakeholder demanding cheap power. This diverts negative attention from Bitcoin's energy use and aligns incentives for building robust energy grids that ultimately benefit Bitcoin miners as well.

The rise of convincing AI-generated deepfakes will soon make video and audio evidence unreliable. The solution will be the blockchain, a decentralized, unalterable ledger. Content will be "minted" on-chain to provide a verifiable, timestamped record of authenticity that no single entity can control or manipulate.

In a fiat system, governments can bail out failing companies. On a sound money standard like Bitcoin, bad decisions by powerful AI corporations would lead to real financial consequences and asset sales, allowing for creative destruction and preventing unchecked monopolies.

AI development has evolved to where models can be directed using human-like language. Instead of complex prompt engineering or fine-tuning, developers can provide instructions, documentation, and context in plain English to guide the AI's behavior, democratizing access to sophisticated outcomes.