HACKER Q&A
📣 mnaei

Is Model Context Protocol an Opportunity for Native Internet Money?


There is currently a lot of money being spent on Large Language Models (LLM). Model Context Protocol (MPC) for LLMs is being widely adopted but has not finalized standardized yet. This could be an opportunity to natively implement money in MPC (and the internet) the right way. There are a few advantages we have now:

- Systems which run LLMs / MPCs have large amount of compute power

- System which run LLMs / MPCs will be always online

- Lessons learned from Bitcoin and Blockchain systems

- There are new Encryption Protocols and Cryptography breakthroughs:

    - Mutual TLS 

    - Zero Knowledge Proof 

    - Fully Homomorphic Encryption 

    - Multi Party Computation
I wanted to hear your thoughts on this.


  👤 jonahbenton Accepted Answer ✓
Money is orthogonal to MCP.

Agent transactions with MCP servers are monetized but that isn't money, that just uses money, either fiat via budgets and apikeys or crypto via microtransactions.

Money is a technology stack on its own, see eg Lyn Alden's book, and LLMs/MCP are not privileged participants in that stack.


👤 npoc
What lessons do you think bitcoin has taught us?