// Hacker Noon · 15 February 2026

Stripe’s x402 Turned Bitcoin’s Micropayments Dream Into a Bot Economy

Stripe's x402 integration lets AI agents autonomously pay for services using USDC on Base—solving the micropayment problem Bitcoin promised but never delivered. Except the beneficiaries aren't humans; they're autonomous software buying API access, data feeds, and compute resources. Crypto spent fift...

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