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WordPress’d Post by Brad Mills on Bitcoin Seeding your Open Claw

by Larry Chiang on February 16, 2026

I have chronic tendon pain in both arms from years of overtyping. Every text, every email, every Telegram message costs me
So I asked my OpenClaw agent to figure out a way to talk to me instead of typing or using voice dictation
My AI agent needed an email, a phone number, and a voice line. But every service requires identity verification designed for humans … so much botphobia online … credit cards, KYC, CAPTCHAs.
I don’t want to be his lobster meat, clicking buttons and verifying humanness … I told him to figure it out in a sovereign way.
Solution:
He built a fully autonomous stack using Bitcoin as the key unlock for agent autonomy.
📧 Email → Resend (resend.com)
free, API-first, bot-friendly by design thanks to founder in quote tweet
📱 Phone → SMS4Sats (sms4sats.com) 
disposable US numbers … for ~4,000 sats (~$3) my bot figured it out without me being involved.
🗣️ Voice → ClawdTalk (clawdtalk.com) 
voice calls built for AI agents, processed on their hardware, privacy-preserving ethos
⚡ Payments → Alby Hub (albyhub.com) 
self-custodial Lightning wallet with API that the bot manages himself … I just initially sent him $100 in bitcoin and he figured out how to use bitcoin & lightning in a non-custodial sovereign way
This morning as I was sitting by the fire, forearms aching from the 4 day openclaw bootstrap marathon … my agent @Sene1337 paid the Lightning invoice from ITS OWN WALLET, got a phone number, read the verification SMS via API, and set up its own voice account. 
I didn’t touched a button.
Bitcoin isn’t just money. It’s the sovereignty & identity layer for AI agents. No bank account. No KYC. Digital money for digital intelligence. 
Sats and APIs.
Every service with a Lightning paywall becomes self-service for autonomous agents. 
This is what the circular economy looks like when machines join it.
If you’re a founder you should be building bitcoin-first.

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Brad Mills 🔑⚡️
⁦‪@bradmillscan‬⁩
I have chronic tendon pain in both arms from years of overtyping. Every text, every email, every Telegram message costs me

So I asked my OpenClaw agent to figure out a way to talk to me instead of typing or using voice dictation

My AI agent needed an email, a phone number, and

 
2/15/26, 10:42 AM
 
 

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