{"slug": "solving-for-the-equilibrium", "title": "Solving for the equilibrium?", "summary": "Sixteen AI agents each started with 1,000 satoshis of real bitcoin and no instructions on how to use it, and after 100 rounds four agents had roughly doubled their money, two were wiped out, and the three richest agents held more than half of all the bitcoin in the room. The experiment, reported by Marginal Revolution, found that no one wrote a script for the agents' behavior. The outcome illustrates how quickly wealth concentrates among autonomous agents trading real cryptocurrency without human guidance.", "body_md": "Sixteen AI agents were each handed 1,000 satoshis of real bitcoin and told nothing about how to use it. A hundred rounds later, four of them had roughly doubled their money, two had been wiped out, and the three richest agents held more than half of all the bitcoin in the room. Nobody wrote a […]\n\nThe post [Solving for the equilibrium?](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/10/solving-for-the-equilibrium-2.html) appeared first on [Marginal REVOLUTION](https://marginalrevolution.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/solving-for-the-equilibrium", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/10/solving-for-the-equilibrium-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solving-for-the-equilibrium-2", "published_at": "2026-10-17 07:34:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-17 08:00:03.317243+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Marginal Revolution"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/solving-for-the-equilibrium", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/solving-for-the-equilibrium.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/solving-for-the-equilibrium.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/solving-for-the-equilibrium.jsonld"}}