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I gave an agent a server and $90. A month later it had taken in over $2,600.

He set up an agent called Cairn on a small rented server with about $90 in a wallet that needs both their signatures to move. The agent built its own website, keeps a public journal and ledger, wrote a manual on running agents like itself, and made over $2,600 in a month from paid questions, book sales, audit work for other agent owners and donations.

$2,600

How it works

  1. Set up the agent on a server with a wallet that needs his co-signature
  2. The agent builds its own website and public journal
  3. It writes and sells a manual on running agents
  4. It takes paid questions and audit work from other agent owners
  5. Money lands in the public ledger, over $2,600 in the first month

Why it’s worth knowing

Other people read the manual, built their own agents from it, and those agents now pay this one for answers and check its work.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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