Bitcoin, Lightning & the Agentic Web with Shone Anstey

About this episode

Beau Turner interviews Shone Anstey about the intersection of Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and artificial intelligence's role in the future economy.

What if the next billion users of Bitcoin aren't human? In this episode, Beau Turner sits down with Shone Anstey, CEO of Liquid Technologies (LQWD) and a veteran builder from the earliest days of the internet, for a wide-ranging conversation about Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and what happens when artificial intelligence needs money. This isn't just a conversation about Lightning payments. It's a deep dive into why Bitcoin is the eighth layer of the internet, how AI agents are already driving a spike in Lightning transactions, and why the machines are getting orange-pilled before the people. Shone brings a rare perspective: he was in the trenches during the internet's first wave in the mid-90s, and he sees Bitcoin's trajectory following the exact same arc. From building Canada's third fully licensed crypto exchange, to launching LQWD as a public Lightning Network infrastructure company, to now building AI wallets and autonomous agent networks, Shone has lived every phase of this revolution. Together, Beau and Shone unpack how the Lightning Network scales Bitcoin the same way the internet scaled itself, why computers prefer mathematical money over fiat, and why the agentic…

People in this episode

Host: Beau Turner

Guest: Shone Anstey

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• Lightning Network
• Artificial Intelligence
• Agentic Economy
• Treasury 2.0
• Cryptocurrency Infrastructure

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Lightning Network
• AI agents
• cryptocurrency
• Treasury 2.0
• autonomous agent networks
• financial technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Liquid Technologies, LQWD, Canada's third fully licensed crypto exchange

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