In this collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation, Christian "CK" Keroles (Director of Financial Freedom at HRF) sits down with Matt Ahlborg (Bitcoin researcher and creator of PayPerQ) for a fireside chat and open Q&A about:
- The emerging dilemma: why Bitcoin is the only way to access AI in countries blocked from traditional payment rails
- How PayPerQ lets anyone in the world (no credit card, no ID) pay for GPT-4 or Claude 3 via Lightning
- What Matt learned from investigating LocalBitcoins and working at Bitrefill during the global P2P boom
- Why privacy-preserving interfaces for AI will matter more than ever as models become more personal
- How AI startups that rely on Stripe functionally limit access to only ~20 countries (and how Matt thinks we can fix this)
- The long-term vision: a decentralized developer economy built on Bitcoin micropayments and API agents!
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