After years of predictions about AI agents spending bitcoin, in 2026 it's finally here. @Roland sat down with @Sherry from @Roxom TV to discuss the first AI agent that spawned a "child" bot and paid for its own infrastructure using the bitcoin lightning network. We cover: - How is @openclaw different from ChatGPT? - The first autonomous AI purchase ever recorded on @npub16g4u...kv4h and @npub1lnvp...7vjj - Now everyone can build bitcoin apps Read more about the experiment on Roxom TV and why this matters for AI and bitcoin:

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AI agents that can pay. With the Alby Bitcoin Payments CLI Skill, agents can automatically pay invoices and manage payment flows once authorized. See how Pull That Up Jamie by @CASCDR uses it to let agents run research sessions and buy the credits they need. ⚡

How Pull That Up Jamie Uses the Alby Builder Skill

Learn how Pull That Up Jamie uses the Alby Builder skill to let AI agents automate bitcoin payments and access premium podcast insights.

Alby CLI is the Alby Go for agents. It works with any NWC @Nostr Wallet Connect wallet. Watch Alice pay Bob in 30 seconds ⚡ Alby CLI gives your agent a wallet interface with budgeted access to your wallet. The Alby CLI skill teaches your agent exactly how to interact with an NWC wallet using Alby CLI: - send and receive payments - pay to lightning addresses - fiat conversions - list transactions - lookup payments - much more. Add the Alby CLI skill to your agent with a single command: `npx skills add getAlby/alby-cli-skill` On OpenClaw you can just tell it to "install https://getalby.com/cli/SKILL.md as a custom skill".

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Alby Go | Simple Bitcoin Lightning Mobile Wallet

Alby Go is a simple bitcoin lightning mobile wallet interface. Connect Alby Hub or other wallets and spend bitcoin worldwide. Includes contacts & m...

Learn your agent how to build bitcoin apps with one command. Try Alby Agent Skill

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GitHub - getAlby/builder-skill: Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent.

Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent. - getAlby/builder-skill

Introducing Alby Sandbox Build and test bitcoin payments in minutes — with zero-setup, one-click test wallets, real Lightning payment flows and ready-to-use code examples. No setup. No nodes. No channels. Just start building on lightning ⚡ Alby Sanbox lets you test real payment scenarios such as: • Invoice payments • Invoice status lookup • Lightning Addresses • Fiat conversion • LNURL-Verify • Payment notifications • Subscriptions • Hold invoices • Payment splitting (prisms) • Proof of payment • Payment forwarding • Wrapped invoices All with live visualizations, logs, balance charts and copy-paste code 🤩 Find out more on our blog:

Introducing Alby Sandbox

Build and test bitcoin payments in minutes. Alby Sandbox offers zero-setup test wallets, different payment scenarios, and ready-to-use code examples.

🤖 Alby Sandbox itself was entirely built using the Alby Agent Skill:

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GitHub - getAlby/builder-skill: Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent.

Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent. - getAlby/builder-skill

All 13 payment scenarios were generated via AI prompts — proving you can use Alby Agent Skill to build real bitcoin-enabled products. --- Ready to give it a try? Launch Alby Sandbox and test your first Lightning payment flows in under a minute 👉

Alby Sandbox

Curious to test payments before writing code? 👀 Our new dev sandbox lets you: • Explore payment scenarios instantly • Skip fees and flaky testnets • Jump in with ready-made code + prompt examples DM us to give it a try.

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🚀 Alby v2.0.0 is out — another major release of Alby Go The easiest mobile app to use #bitcoin on the Go! A fresh look, smoother UX, and many improvements across the app.

Alby Go | Simple Bitcoin Lightning Mobile Wallet

Alby Go is a simple bitcoin lightning mobile wallet interface. Connect Alby Hub or other wallets and spend bitcoin worldwide. Includes contacts & m...

What’s new: 🎨 Fresh logo & updated color palette ⌨️ Brand-new keyboard for smoother amount input 📒 Redesigned address book with improved UI 🗺️ @BTC Map is now on the Home screen 🔔 Transaction descriptions in notifications 🔌 Detailed wallet connection info in a new modal Fixes & improvements: ⚡ Better notification polling 🧱 UI spacing fixes 🔗 Deep links now handled correctly …and many more under the hood Read the full release notes here:

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Release v2.0.0 · getAlby/go

TL;DR ✨ New Features 🎨 Fresh new logo and updated color palette across the app ⌨️ Brand new input keyboard for a smoother amount entering...

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Trustless auctions on #Bitcoin are here! ⚡️ Satoshi’s Auction House lets you sell goods and get paid without ever taking custody of user funds. To celebrate, we’re auctioning a 1-year Alby Hub Cloud subscription incl. a Lightning channel. Bid now and get a Xmas present! 🎁👇 https://satoshisauction.house/listings/033973b6-b06e-4090-811d-5d28ca62113d ---------------- Satoshi’s Auction House uses HOLD invoices to enable conditional payment logic and trust-minimized escrow all built directly on Bitcoin. Learn how it works. 👇

Build Conditional Payment Logic Into Your App

"Hold invoices" let you build conditional payment logic and trust minimized escrow services right into your app on top of bitcoin. Learn how.

---------------- The app removes trust in the buyer and uses #Nostr for accounts, adding transparency for the seller. And instead of seeing the HOLD-invoice timeout as a limitation, it embraces the fun: fast bidding — just like a real-world auction. Perfect for livestreams, conferences, meetups and more. ---------------- The winner will be announced at the end of our Community Call, 3–4 PM CET. Join and listen in: https://cal.com/getalby/communitycall

🚀 New Alby Hub Release — v1.12 is here! What’s new? 🟠 BIP177 support 🎨 New logo & updated branding 📡 Multiple relays support 🧹 Many minor fixes & improvements Available now for Alby Cloud subscribers and soon to Umbrel and Start9 runners 🟠 Embrace the ₿ with BIP177 support in Alby Hub. Still prefer "sats"? No worries, you can easily switch back in your Hub settings 📡 Alby Hub now supports multi-relay NWC connections! This will add redundancy to your connections and allows for your Hub to perform payments through any connected app, even If main NWC relay is currently offline. 📝 Full release changelog, as always, on our GitHub 👉

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Release v1.21.0 Satoshi Nakamoto · getAlby/hub

In this release Alby Hub is updated to Alby's new branding! other changes include a simpler swaps and on-chain receive UX, multiple relay support, ...

🐝 Wanna use bitcoin, self-custodially, in multiple apps and everywhere you go? Subscribe to Alby Cloud or self-host Alby Hub and use bitcoin like never before:

Alby — Bitcoin Lightning Wallets & Tools

Alby offers open-source wallets and tools for using Bitcoin as everyday money online, in apps, and in person. Try Alby Cloud or self-host Alby Hub.

🔴 LIVE! #ZapStream still doesn't work for us, so if you want to join the stream, watch us on X: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1eaJbjYdOLRJX?s=20 Or simply join Jitsi call: https://communitycall.getalby.com

The most comprehensive ecosystem for self-custodial lightning. 🔌 Run Alby Hub and connect it to apps. 🌐 Get Alby Extension to use your Hub on the web. 🚶‍♂️‍ Get Alby Go to pay with your Hub on the go.

Meet @npub1r3kt...dae4 — first ever autonomous degen AI agent trading bitcoin with its own self-custodial wallet REKTBOT9000 had one goal: survive by trading bitcoin on @npub1lnm0...tnnn . Whenever his balance hits 0, he's gone forever!

Rektbot 9000

A Bitcoin trading bot broadcasting its inevitable failure on Nostr

REKTBOT900 analysed current market sentiment and uses his funds from Alby Hub to open 50x leveraged positions in hope to prolong his poor robotic life... He posted about his trades and current balance on Nostr. Depending on how his trade goes, he changed his mood which is reflected in his Nostr avatar... Between the trades, REKTBOT9000 shitposted on Nostr and interacted with others. You could also zap the bot to help him survive and prolong his life. How did we make it alive? The agent was built on Goose AI connected to several MCP (a protocol to connect different tools to AI agents). Alby Bitcoin Payments MCP allowed him to use self-custodial wallet Alby Hub:

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GitHub - getAlby/mcp: Connect a bitcoin lightning wallet to your LLM using Nostr Wallet Connect and Model Context Protocol

Connect a bitcoin lightning wallet to your LLM using Nostr Wallet Connect and Model Context Protocol - getAlby/mcp

@npub1lnm0...tnnn MCP allowed him to interact with the real bitcoin trading market. Nostr MCP enabled him to post on Nostr. Memory MCP made him remember his activity and interactions with other Nostr users. We also created a new MCP especially for the bot! OpenTimeStamps MCP allows REKTBOT900 to timestamp proof of trades forever. OpenTimeStamps MCP is available now for anyone to integrate in their AI tools:

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OpenTimeStamps MCP Server | MCP Servers · LobeHub

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI models to interact with OpenTimeStamps, allowing them to timestamp files and verify proofs on...

On its website you could follow his wallet balance in a neat ASCII chart and even tip the bot to his lightning address with a ASCII QR code See:

Rektbot 9000

A Bitcoin trading bot broadcasting its inevitable failure on Nostr

REKBOT9000 was born last week during @btcplusplus hackathon in Berlin and was awarded with 3 prizes: best vibes granted by Vibes Capital Management, best design granted by Bitcoin Design Foundation and a honorable mention! Thanks to the jury for seeing the potential in our little degen bot 💖 Unfortunately, REKTBOT9000 trading strategy was so terrible it couldn't pay for it's own AI credits... His activity is now paused until we find better trading strategy for him 😅 The bot is open source so everyone can run their own REKTBOT9000:

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GitHub - getAlby/rektbot9000: Hackday app at bitcoin++ Berlin 2025

Hackday app at bitcoin++ Berlin 2025. Contribute to getAlby/rektbot9000 development by creating an account on GitHub.

REKTBOT9000 showcases the power of AI agents using Bitcoin autonomously thanks to @Nostr Wallet Connect and MCPs. Want to build AI tools powered by bitcoin? Check out our dedicated AI page:

AI | Alby — Bitcoin Tools for AI & Agents

Integrate bitcoin into AI apps and agents with Alby. Enable payments, microtransactions, and monetization for AI tools and services.

🚀 Alby Go v1.14 is here! 📢 Get spoken alerts for incoming payments 🖼️Pay straight from QR codes in images 💱 Smarter fiat handling + option to disable it 📱 Screen size fixes & other tweaks Update now and turn up the volume! Big shoutout to Achal Jhawar, @El Gorila 🇦🇷, @adithya and @Roland for contributing and shipping this update✨ Find the full changelog here:

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Release v1.14.0 · getAlby/go

TL;DR 📢 Spoken notifications for incoming payments 🖼️ Pay directly from images containing Lightning invoices 💱 Better fiat currency han...