Spiral is adding Bitcoin payments to Mesh LLM so machines can buy AI compute
- —Mesh LLM pools idle GPUs to run distributed inference on models exceeding 256GB
- —Payments will run over the Lightning Network on Bitcoin without bank intermediaries
- —On October 3, 2026, the team discussed progress and the verifiable compute challenge
- —x402 is under discussion as a potential route for AI agent micropayments
Why it matters: If verifiable compute is solved, Bitcoin payments could underpin the emerging economy of AI agents and GPU compute markets.
Source: Crypto Briefing