Spiral integrates Bitcoin payments into Mesh LLM for AI compute

Spiral: Spiral is the open-source Bitcoin development arm of Block, focused on tools like the Lightning Development Kit and Bitcoin Development Kit for building wallets and Lightning applications. It has recently expanded into AI infrastructure through projects such as Goose and Mesh LLM. In this news, Spiral is leading the integration of Bitcoin payments into Mesh LLM to enable permissionless machine-to-machine AI compute transactions. Bitcoin: Bitcoin is the original decentralized cryptocurrency that powers a peer-to-peer electronic cash system and supports the Lightning Network for scalable payments. It underpins the payment functionality in Spiral's Mesh LLM integration, allowing AI agents to buy and sell compute without traditional merchant accounts or payment rails. Moneyball: Steve Lee, known online as @moneyball, serves as lead at Spiral and co-founder of PresidioBitcoin while co-hosting the PBJ podcast on Bitcoin topics. He is a prominent commentator in Bitcoin and open-source AI circles. In the news, he publicly highlighted the Spiral integration as one of the most exciting Bitcoin payment developments. Agentic Commerce: The development positions Bitcoin as infrastructure for machine-to-machine economies where AI systems transact independently. Bitcoin Payments: Spiral's integration enables Bitcoin to serve as a native payment method for autonomous AI agents accessing distributed compute resources. AI Infrastructure: Mesh LLM operates as a peer-to-peer network where participants contribute spare hardware to run open-source AI models collaboratively.