Bitcoin Is the Toll Collector of the AI Economy | Jordi Visser

Visser bets value accrues to "toll collectors"—compute infrastructure and crypto settlement rails—as AI agents disrupt banks and commoditize general-purpose models.

• Bankpocalypse thesis: Visser argues banks face margin compression as AI agents route money to the cheapest option and instant settlement (stablecoins, tokenization) erodes the float banks currently earn on deposit spreads.
• Stripe vs. legacy banks: Stripe ($160B valuation, 10,000 employees, 41% YoY revenue growth) is positioned to out-compete Citigroup ($200B market cap, 200,000 employees) because it's already built for crypto and agentic commerce.

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